Conformer Shuriken

Combat tempo and combat math, folded into one equipment. The attack trigger does two things at once: it taps a creature the defender controls, and then, if that tapped creature had greater power than the equipped attacker, banks the difference as permanent +1/+1 counters. That second clause is the wrinkle. The reward scales inversely to the equipped creature's power, which inverts the usual equipment logic where you strap the sword onto your biggest threat. Here a small carrier attacking into a wall of large blockers gets the maximum payout, snowballing toward the very statline that would then shrink its future returns. The tap-first sequencing matters too: because the ability resolves on attack, the defending player's best blocker is neutralized before blocks are even declared, so the counters and the removed blocker compound in the same turn. Left running across several combats, a modest equipped creature keeps peeling the top blocker off the defending board and keeps growing until it no longer needs the help, at which point the tap effect alone is doing the work. It is a slow-burn engine dressed as a combat trick, and the design asks you to attack into strength rather than around it.