Bronze Sword

The cheapest possible entry to a very old idea: pay one mana to drop a weapon, then pay to strap it on. The +2/+0 with no drawback is the archetypal "swords make things bigger" template that Equipment inherited from the days of static enchant-creature auras, and the pricing here is deliberately blunt. The card costs almost nothing to cast, which is the point, but the equip fee is where the real tax lives: three mana every time you want to move the buff, at sorcery speed, means the sword commits to a body and stays there unless you are willing to spend again. That asymmetry (trivial to deploy, expensive to relocate) is the whole balancing act. It rewards a board that can keep an equipped creature alive rather than one that shuffles the weapon around chasing value. A pure aggressive tool with no keyword granting, no toughness, no protection: just raw offense stapled to the smallest creature you can afford to make relevant. The lineage runs straight through every plain-stat Equipment before it, and the design here strips the concept to its studs, offering combat math and nothing else.