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Cori-Steel Cutter

Artifact — Equipment1 generic manaRed mana

Two-mana equipment usually asks the same question over and over: what creature is worth spending the equip cost to suit up, and can it survive long enough to matter? This one answers by manufacturing its own carrier. The flurry trigger reads like a spellslinger reward, but the real work is the sequencing loop: cast a second spell, get a Monk with prowess, attach the equipment for free, and now that token swings as a trample-and-haste body on the same turn you met the condition. There is no board-development tax and no window where the equipment sits idle waiting for a target. The prowess on the token only starts scaling from the third spell onward, since the token is created by the second spell's own cast trigger and is not yet on the battlefield to see it; the equipment supplies the flat static bonus and the keywords that make the token a threat the moment it arrives. What keeps the engine from spiraling is the once-per-turn shape of flurry: you get exactly one token per turn no matter how many spells you chain past the second, so the payoff accrues across turns rather than detonating in a single explosive sequence. That ceiling is the line between an engine that grinds and one that oppresses. Plenty of red aggro payoffs reward a deck stuffed with cheap spells, but few of them build their own attacker and equip it in one motion the way this does.

Cori-Steel Cutter (ptdm)
PTDM · #103prare
Pricing
Normal: $4.87
Foil: $4.84
Oracle Text

Rules text

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has trample and haste. Flurry — Whenever you cast your second spell each turn, create a 1/1 white Monk creature token with prowess. You may attach this Equipment to it. (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, the token gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) Equip 1 generic manaRed mana
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Banned
Pioneer
Banned
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
Legal
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
Banned
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
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