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Ranger's Longbow

Artifact — Equipment1 generic manaGreen mana

Green is Magic's home color for reach, so the interesting thing about stapling it to gear is not that the color needs the keyword: it is that the keyword becomes transferable. Green's evasion-catchers usually arrive on a specific body, so a chump-blocked flier is solved only until that creature dies. Reach on an Equipment outlives whatever holds it, so the answer moves from one ground-pounder to the next as your board turns over, and one investment covers the sky for the rest of the game. The +2/+1 is doing quieter work than the reach; the extra point of toughness in particular is tuned to let a modest body survive the trade it is now allowed to make against an evasive attacker, rather than dying to it. The equip cost is where the tension sits: green wants its mana attacking, and paying it here pulls a turn's worth of resources into a defensive posture at sorcery speed, when you would rather be pushing damage. That is what you accept in exchange for a repeatable, reusable flier-answer over a one-shot removal spell like the Plummet family: you rent the reach turn by turn instead of spending a card to kill one thing. It is a plain design and a clean one, taking a keyword green already owns and making it portable across a board of otherwise grounded creatures.

Ranger's Longbow (afr)
AFR · #203common
Pricing
Normal: $0.15
Foil: $0.23
Oracle Text

Rules text

Equipped creature gets +2/+1 and has reach. Equip 3 generic mana (3 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
Legal
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
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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