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Viridian Longbow

Artifact — Equipment1 generic mana

The equipment grants a brand-new tap ability rather than leaning on anything the creature already does, which is the whole point: bolt the Longbow onto a wall, a defensive body, a spent attacker, any creature whose tap you can spare, and that body becomes a sorcery-speed-installed, instant-speed source of one point of damage on demand, every turn, forever. The math is small and merciless. A single point does nothing to a board of large bodies, but it is lethal patience against the cards that hate being pinged: X/1 utility creatures, toughness-1 hatebears, mana dorks, and planeswalkers chipped down one loyalty at a time. As a colorless removal-and-reach tool, it slots into any shell regardless of color, the kind of artifact-dense, tap-ability-rich design lineage where equipment first started doing this kind of work. The friction is deliberate. The equip cost is steep relative to a single point of damage, and the activation eats the creature's tap, so the body can ping or attack but not both in a turn (vigilance breaks that tension neatly, freeing an attacker to fire after combat). Pair it with an untapper and the slow drip becomes a genuine engine, grinding an opponent's small creatures off the board one at a time while threatening their life total in the late game. It does not end games quickly; it refuses to stop, which is a different and underrated kind of pressure.

Viridian Longbow (plst)
PLST · #AFC-221common
Pricing
Normal: $0.56
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Equipped creature has "Tap: This creature deals 1 damage to any target." 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
N/A
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
Legal
Pauper Commander
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
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