Vulshok Splitter

A traditional sword sits inert on the battlefield until you can afford the equip cost, and against a board wipe or a well-timed removal spell you are down a card with nothing to show for it. This design closes that vulnerability window by arriving as a finished threat: a 4/2 Rebel that swings the turn after it lands, reverting to being a reusable +2/+0 buff only later, once the equip line matters. That reframes the card as a creature with a built-in insurance policy: kill the token and the Equipment survives to move onto the next body, kill nothing and you have a real clock. The equip cost is deliberately steep for the effect, which is the tell that the design is paying you up front rather than over time; the sticker price on the equip line is not where the value lives. It slots into the tradition of one-card threats that reward going wide and hitting hard, adjacent to the Living Weapon designs of an earlier era but tuned toward red's tempo instincts rather than black's grind. The Rebel creature type is mostly vestigial flavor here, a nod to the token's origins rather than a build-around hook.