Mortarpod

Living weapon was the keyword that solved a longstanding problem with sacrifice fodder: how do you put a body and a payload on the same card without making it two cards? This is the cleanest answer the mechanic ever produced. The equipment arrives, builds its own 0/0 Germ token, and the whole package becomes a creature you fully control whose death is the cost and the effect at once. The damage is one point, but the structure is what matters. Because the ability lives on the equipped creature, you can move the equipment onto something else and turn any expendable body into a one-shot pinger; because the Germ exists on its own when nothing better is around, it never sits dead in hand. That makes it a sacrifice outlet, a fodder generator, and a removal source folded into a single two-mana artifact, which is why it became a fixture of decks that profit from creatures dying rather than from the damage itself: the death triggers, the drain effects, the engines that need a body to throw away on demand. The pinging is almost incidental. What the card actually sells is permission to sacrifice on your own terms, any number of times, with a fresh host for the equipment each time you pay the equip cost. It reads like a small combat trick and functions like an engine piece.