His primary concern is his own survival, and he won't hesitate to throw other people into the path of danger if it means the difference between his own life and death
In chatting with MG a while back we discussed me writing a post about one of my favorite aspects of early Magic, which has been absent since Homelands in 1996, a mechanic lost to the annals time - of course I'm talking about ante
It does a lot of things but so rarely that it is worth little to the card as a whole
I like the design because it grants a bonus to the creature that encourages attackingincreasing the chance that the equipped creature is killedand it grants enough of a bonus that it makes the equipped creature a target for creature kill
Credit: Wizards of the Coast The Thing, Ben Grimm FromTheShire: Well he certainly gets big, assuming your opponents are actually still alive
They also possess notably higher HP, allowing them to endure more punishment than their counterparts