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Spiked Ripsaw

Artifact — Equipment2 generic manaGreen mana

A static +3/+3 that reattaches is only the frame; the real design lever is the trample rider, which converts a Forest into evasion one attack at a time. That sacrifice is not a drawback bolted onto an otherwise generic stat-stick: it is the honest tax that keeps a repeatable "push damage through a chump wall" effect from being free. The more you lean on it, the faster your own land count contracts, so the card wants a green aggro shell built to flood the board and cash in surplus lands as damage, not a deck that needs every Forest for mana. The Equipment chassis compounds this: unlike an aura, the buff survives the death of whatever holds it and re-attaches at sorcery speed to the next attacker, letting the +3/+3 persist across a grind while trample stays a per-turn resource paid for individually. The catch the honest evaluation has to include is the cost curve: this is not a cheap enchantment stapling +3/+3 to a creature in one shot. Getting the buff onto a body takes casting the Equipment and then paying the equip cost, a two-step investment before any land ever hits the graveyard for trample. Read that way, it is a plain-spoken aggressive tool with a built-in evasion valve that runs on the one resource green tends to have in surplus, but it charges you up front for the privilege.

Spiked Ripsaw (dbl)
DBL · #487uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.11
Foil: $0.20
Oracle Text

Rules text

Equipped creature gets +3/+3. Whenever equipped creature attacks, you may sacrifice a Forest. If you do, that creature gains trample until end of turn. 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
N/A
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
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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