Equipment is gone. You no longer strap a blade onto a creature and hope that creature lives.

Weapons attach to you.

Armor sits on the player. It is not creature Defense. It does not come back at the end of the turn.

All damage hits Armor first. Leftover damage hits Life. Effects that say you lose Life, including Siphon, skip Armor entirely.

If you are holding a Weapon and Armor hits 0, the Weapon breaks. Same event as the damage.

If a Weapon leaves some other way (Bounce, Sacrifice), your Armor stays. You can have Armor with no Weapon. Hitting 0 Armor with no Weapon does nothing extra.

Replacing a Weapon does not strip the old Armor. The new Armor stacks on top.

During your Main Phases, once per turn, you can attack with your Weapon. You can do this the turn it enters.

If the opponent has any creatures, you must hit a creature. Taunt and Shroud do not stop this. Any opposing creature is legal, including exhausted ones and ones played this turn.

If they have no creatures, you can hit the player. If they Ambush a creature in response, that creature becomes the target.

The Weapon and the creature strike at the same time. You take the creature's Attack (Armor first). The Weapon does not strike back during Combat. Creatures still cannot attack other creatures. This is the only way you fight a creature.

Keywords on the Weapon apply:

Declaring the attack passes priority, same idea as declaring blockers. The Weapon exhausts. Triggered abilities still work.

Creatures still attack the player, not other creatures. Combat is unchanged. Weapons are a Main Phase action, not a Combat Phase attacker.

Weapons are permanents. They can be targeted, Silenced, Bounced, and Pacified.

Existing Weapon cards keep their names, types, and colors. Attack, Armor, and abilities are getting a full pass. None of the old Equipment lines are valid under these rules.

Equipment lived and died with the creature wearing it. Weapons put you in the fight. Armor is a second life total that does not refill, so every swing and every Spark against you is a real choice about whether to keep the blade or let it shatter.

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