Marauder's Axe

Two to cast, two to equip, and the whole investment buys a flat +2/+0 with no upside clause, no evasion, no second mode. That is the entire transaction, and it is deliberate. Equipment occupies an awkward design corner because it outlives the creature it buffs, so a strong cheap aura-on-a-stick can snowball a board out of reach as the buff hops from a dead carrier to the next attacker. The answer here is to strip the rate to the bone: a power boost large enough to matter in combat math, attached to nothing else worth paying for. The sorcery-speed equip clause (shared by every Equipment) closes the trick window, so there is no surprise pump once blockers are declared; the buff has to be committed on your own turn, before combat, where the opponent can see it coming. What that leaves is a clean, low-rarity aggression enabler: it turns a 2/2 into a genuine threat and keeps a swarm pointed forward after the original wielder trades away. The card does its work primarily in combat, and it demands no supporting pieces to function, which is precisely the low, floor-setting slot it was designed to occupy: a beater-buffer for the aggressor, priced so it never warps a game and never has to.