Veteran's Powerblade

Two equip costs printed on the same piece of gear, and the gap between them carries the whole design. Pay generic mana and the equip runs the ordinary , the standard toll for a +2/+0 buff. But outfit a Soldier and the cost collapses to a single white mana, and that discount reshapes the aggregate curve: once the artifact is down, a white one-mana Soldier can pick up the blade for a single white mana and start swinging harder. That conditional rate is the payoff a tribal aggro build pays into, and it distinguishes this from the flat-cost artifact-set equipment that slots into any list. The buff itself is deliberately narrow (raw power only, no evasion, no keyword, no toughness), which keeps the card pointed forward: it accelerates a board already committed to swinging rather than rescuing one that has fallen behind. The two-tier equip cost is a tidy piece of tribal engineering, rewarding creature-type density without shutting non-Soldier decks out entirely, since the generic keeps it serviceable as filler beatdown gear anywhere. It is a colorless artifact that nonetheless wants to live in white, and that gravitational pull toward a single archetype is what the whole build was engineered to produce.