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Magitek Scythe

Artifact — Equipment4 generic mana

The lure clause is the whole idea. Most equipment sits inert until you spend a turn suiting up: the enters trigger here folds the attachment into casting, and rather than just handing over the stat boost, it forces a combat script. First strike plus a must-be-blocked clause turns the equipped creature into bait that punishes the block, a single-turn forced block stapled to a first-striking body. That combination is old (the "lure" template goes back to green Wall-clearers, and first-strike Lure is how those creatures cleared a board), but bolting it onto an Equipment's entry trigger is the wrinkle: you get the one-shot combat coercion the turn it lands, then a permanent +2/+1 anvil that stays after the reflex window closes. The trigger is optional and only fires on entry, so the free attach happens once; every later move requires the equip cost the ordinary way. That split is what keeps it honest. The lure is a burst effect priced into the cast, not a repeatable engine, so it rewards playing this into a board where the forced block already wins the exchange rather than dropping it on an empty table. Read it as two cards sharing a frame: a combat trick that ends a creature the turn it arrives, and a modest anvil that hangs around to keep swinging afterward.

Magitek Scythe (fin)
FIN · #562rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.28
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Oracle Text

Rules text

A Test of Your Reflexes! — When this Equipment enters, you may attach it to target creature you control. If you do, that creature gains first strike until end of turn and must be blocked this turn if able. Equipped creature gets +2/+1. Equip 2 generic mana
Legalities

Format Status

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