Slayer's Plate

A +4/+2 buff for three mana is generous by the standards of cheap Equipment, and the Spirit clause tells you exactly why the card was built around tribal commitment: it only pays out when the creature wearing it dies, and only when that creature was a Human. That conditional turns the death trigger from a generic insurance policy into a payoff that asks you to fill your board with the right creature type before the swing. The asymmetry is the point. Equip a non-Human and the +4/+2 is all you get, a flat statline bonus any deck could use; equip a Human and the Equipment becomes a value engine that survives combat math, racing, and removal, because the body you lose comes back partway as an evasive flier. The 1/1 white Spirit with flying is also a quiet thematic callback to the way Human death tends to spawn Spirits in this corner of the multiverse, so the mechanic and the flavor are doing the same work. Two restrictions keep it grounded: the steep equip cost makes it slow to redeploy across multiple bodies in a turn, and the trigger does nothing unless your creature actually dies, so it rewards trading and chump-blocking rather than connecting. It is an Equipment that wants its wearer to die well, which is a rarer design instinct than the usual mandate to keep the creature alive.