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Winter Soldier, Icy Assassin

Legendary Creature — Human Assassin VillainWhite manaBlack mana

Equipment aggro has a recurring structural problem: the swords outlive the arms that carry them. Creatures die in combat, the gear survives, and the deck spends its subsequent turns finding a new body to re-suit. This card answers that problem inside a single activation, folding the reattach step directly into the reanimation. Pay the return cost and he claws back from the graveyard, then immediately pulls a piece of Equipment off another of your creatures (or off nowhere in particular) and dons it. The finality counter is the tax that keeps the loop from spinning forever: he exiles instead of dying next time, so the graveyard-to-battlefield trick is a one-shot per body rather than a repeatable engine, and that single-use ceiling is precisely what makes the return cost payable. The base body trades evenly with a bear until steel goes on the frame, at which point each Equipment stacks two more power and the same creature swings for six or eight. Menace matters more here than on most aggressive attackers: an Equipment-swollen swing that forces a two-body block turns every attack into a trade the defender would rather refuse, and vigilance lets the loaded frame stand guard on the crackback. The design commits to the specific tension of the archetype it belongs to, rebuilding the carrier from the yard and re-arming him in one motion.

Winter Soldier, Icy Assassin (msh)
MSH · #239rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.25
Foil: $0.37
Oracle Text

Rules text

Vigilance, menace Winter Soldier gets +2/+0 for each Equipment attached to him. 3 generic manaWhite manaBlack mana: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a finality counter on him. Then you may attach an Equipment you control to him. (If a creature with a finality counter on it would die, exile it instead.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
Legal
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
Legal
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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