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Ashnod's Battle Gear
Oracle Text
You may choose not to untap this artifact during your untap step.
{2}, {T}: Target creature you control gets +2/-2 for as long as this artifact remains tapped.
Card Details
Mana CostCharacter Background
Ashnod’s Battle Gear is a deceptively flexible piece of old-school artifact tech that fits best in a tempo or combo-leaning creature deck, especially one that cares more about turning stats into pressure than about blocking. The ability to leave it tapped lets you “store” the effect and keep the pump online across turns, while the {2}, {T} activation can push a key attacker into lethal range by trading toughness for power. That makes it especially good on creatures with high natural toughness, on evasive threats that only need a damage boost, or on bodies that want to survive damage-based combat math after attacking. In practice, pair it with creatures that have 4+ toughness, combat tricks, or cards that profit from being repeatedly untapped for value. It is weaker in pure aggro than in a board-control shell, but in the right deck it becomes a repeatable conversion of defense into offense, which is very much the kind of ruthless artifact engineering Ashnod implies.
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Character Background
Ashnod’s Battle Gear is a deceptively flexible piece of old-school artifact tech that fits best in a tempo or combo-leaning creature deck, especially one that cares more about turning stats into pressure than about blocking. The ability to leave it tapped lets you “store” the effect and keep the pump online across turns, while the {2}, {T} activation can push a key attacker into lethal range by trading toughness for power. That makes it especially good on creatures with high natural toughness, on evasive threats that only need a damage boost, or on bodies that want to survive damage-based combat math after attacking. In practice, pair it with creatures that have 4+ toughness, combat tricks, or cards that profit from being repeatedly untapped for value. It is weaker in pure aggro than in a board-control shell, but in the right deck it becomes a repeatable conversion of defense into offense, which is very much the kind of ruthless artifact engineering Ashnod implies.
Generated using gpt-5.4-mini · Updated at 2026-09-14 06:40:43 UTC