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Experimental Armor

Artifact — Equipment2 generic manaRed mana

Flying and haste on the same Equipment is the tell: this is built to turn a creature into an evasive threat the moment it hits play, not to grind out incremental value. The +1/+1 is almost incidental; the payload is the keyword package. Haste means a freshly cast creature can attack the turn it arrives, and flying means it does so over most ground defenses. Equipment carries a durability the enchantment-based version of this effect lacks: kill the equipped creature and the armor stays on the battlefield, ready to strap onto the next body. That reusability is the whole reason Equipment exists as a card type, and this one leans into it hard. The sorcery-speed equip cost and the two-mana price to move it are the restrictions that keep it from being a combat trick; you commit to the reattachment on your own turn, in advance, which makes it a threat-assembly tool rather than a surprise. Red rarely gets clean evasion without a rider (a spectacle cost, a sacrifice, an attack requirement), so a repeatable flying-and-haste enabler sits slightly outside the color's usual toolkit. The best home is a creature whose combat damage or attack trigger justifies pushing it through unblocked, then a second such creature waiting once the first one dies.

Experimental Armor (msc)
MSC · #543uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $1.02
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Rules text

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has flying and haste. (It can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach. It can attack and Tap as soon as it comes under your control.) Equip 2 generic mana (2 generic mana: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
N/A
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
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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