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Groom's Finery

Artifact — Equipment1 generic manaBlack mana

Two Equipment printed as a matched pair, each carrying half of a bonus that completes only when both are attached across your creatures. On its own this half is a flat +2/+0, a serviceable but unremarkable rate; find Bride's Gown attached to any creature you control and the second half switches on, stacking +0/+2 and deathtouch. The condition is what makes the design worth noting. The check isn't whether both pieces sit on the same creature but whether both are attached somewhere on your side, so the payoff scales to a board with a body wearing each half, and the deathtouch and toughness bump can land on a creature that never touches Bride's Gown at all. That distributed requirement is the whole gimmick: it turns two mediocre equips into a package that rewards committing to both. The flavor and the mechanics are locked together, a wedding pair whose gift is whole only when the couple is united. As build-around it asks for redundancy in the draw and enough open mana to complete the set, since half the reward waits behind a second card you may not yet have. Nothing forces the two equips onto separate turns; with the mana to spare, both can go down in one, and that flexibility is part of what keeps the engine playable rather than a two-turn ritual.

Groom's Finery (vow)
VOW · #117uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.11
Foil: $0.16
Oracle Text

Rules text

Equipped creature gets +2/+0. It gets an additional +0/+2 and has deathtouch as long as an Equipment named Bride's Gown is attached to a creature you 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
Legal
Modern
Legal
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
Printings elsewhere

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