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Warmonger's Chariot

Artifact — Equipment2 generic mana

Walls don't attack: that's the whole point of defender, the keyword that lets a creature trade away its offense for a body too cheap to be fair. This Equipment buys that offense back. Strap it on a high-toughness wall and the static defender clause is simply waived, turning a creature built to sit in front of an attack into one that swings, now with +2/+2 on top of an already lopsided toughness. The design is doing two jobs that usually fight each other: it pumps the body and it rewrites the rules text that body was priced around. The +2/+2 alone makes it serviceable on anything, which keeps the card from being a dead draw in a deck without walls, but the defender line is where the intent lives. It points squarely at the cheap, fat-bottomed creatures that exist precisely because they can never threaten you, and asks what happens when they suddenly can. The friction is the equip cost: at sorcery speed and a meaningful chunk of mana, you must set up the swing during your own main phase, so the trick telegraphs itself rather than ambushing a blocker mid-combat. Most Equipment that grants attacking does so by handing out evasion or extra combat steps; this one works a layer beneath that, granting permission to attack at all to a creature the game had written off as purely defensive.

Warmonger's Chariot (roe)
ROE · #226uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.10
Foil: $0.73
Oracle Text

Rules text

Equipped creature gets +2/+2. As long as equipped creature has defender, it can attack as though it didn't have defender. 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
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
Legal
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
Printings elsewhere

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