The Reaver Cleaver

Most combat-damage payoffs live and die on a binary: your attacker connects and the trigger fires, or a single chump blocker shuts the whole thing off. Bolting the reward to trample rewrites that exchange. Chumping no longer zeroes out the Treasure; it just skims the top, and everything that spills past the blocker converts into mana. That is why the +1/+1 does real work: it is less a body buff than insurance that the equipped creature outsizes most blockers by a margin wide enough to keep printing Treasure. Because the token count scales with damage dealt rather than paying out a flat amount, the equipment prefers to ride the biggest threat on the board and rewards you for stacking power on top of it. The result is a feedback loop where combat funds the mana that funds the next threat that funds more combat. The steep equip cost is the counterweight that stops the loop from spinning for free: relocating it costs three, so it favors a durable carrier over a fragile one that trades away next turn. What lands here that red rarely gets is clean, repeatable acceleration paid out as a direct dividend of attacking, folding ramp and aggression into a single line of play rather than forcing a choice between them.