Livewire Lash

Equipment that turns the act of being targeted into a payoff, which inverts how spot removal usually works against an equipped threat. Point a kill spell at a creature wearing this and it gets to fire off two damage before it dies; try to enhance it with a pump spell or aura and the same trigger fires. The +2/+0 is almost incidental: the real design is a redirection tax, baked into a creature, that punishes the opponent for engaging with it at all and rewards a deck willing to target its own creatures on purpose. That second half is the wrinkle worth dwelling on. Your own spells trigger it too, so a deck built around cheap one-mana cantrips and combat tricks can chain the equipped creature into a repeatable two-damage ping, redirecting the burst at whatever needs to die. The card weaponizes targeting rather than treating it as a cost, and it sits at the friction point between protecting a threat and pressing an advantage: the opponent has to decide whether killing the creature is worth eating the damage, while the controller can sidestep the question entirely by aiming spells inward. A puzzle box more than a brute, it asks both players to think twice about a verb the game usually treats as free.