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Ardenn, Intrepid Archaeologist & Puresteel Paladin

Creatures that provide free equipping.

• Ardenn suits himself up or another threat when my combat begins. He can also be an early threat if my opening hand is slow.

• Puresteel Paladin grants equip 0 to my Equipment when metalcraft is achieved. It's also a card draw engine, causing my Equipment to cantrip.

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Danitha Capashen

A Dominarian Knight that reduces the cost of Equipment. Her multiple keywords also makes her a great back-up Equipment wielder, specifically the Swords. and P/T boosters.

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Leonin Abunas & Bronze Guardian

Creatures that safeguard my Equipment from targeted removal.

• Abunas is the best available, granting hexproof to all of my artifacts.

• Guardian has ward and grants it to my artifacts, forcing opponents to have additional mana available for their removal to work. Guardian is also an effective back-up threat with its own double strike and scaled power.

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Stoneforge Mystic & Stonehewer Giant

Creatures that tutor for Equipment.

• Stoneforge Mystic can cheat an Equipment onto the battlefield for only two mana, circumventing high mana costs and dodging countermagic.

• Stonehewer Giant is the best creatures the 99. Tutoring up my best Equipment directly onto the field every turn is backbreaking. I tend to favour Argentum Armor as the first Equipment to grab.

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Land Ramp

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Knight of the White Orchid & Loyal Warhound

Land ramp effects on bodies. As long as I'm not going first, they'll function perfectly fine early-game to develop my board. I tend to grab Mistveil Plains with the Knight. unless I need the untapped Basic.

I use these cards instead of 2mv Mana Rocks to avoid complete blowouts from mass artifact removal.

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Land Fetch

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Angel of the Ruins & Wandering Archaic  

I use them in lieu of other Basic land tutors, such as Land Tax and Gift of Estates. Those type of cards tend to become dead very quickly while a creature still has the potential to be a back-up Equipment wielder. They also pair very well with Sword of Light and Shadow to give a steady stream of land drops or to bring them back to cast their creature side.

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Weathered Wayfarer

A repeatable land tutor. Keeps me from falling behind on land drops and sets up my board with utility lands.

If played on Turn 1, it can grab Ancient Tomb to cast Halvar  early.

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Removal

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Angel of the Ruins

When it doesn't need to be cycled for a land drop, I can use to exile two of my opponents' toys.

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Cataclysmic Gearhulk & Realm-Cloaked Giant

Creatures with sweeper abilities. Capable of being reused with recursion.

• Realm-Cloaked Giant sweeps the board on its Adventure, then waits in exile when its strength is required. I can also just play it out normally if I need the body right away.

• Cataclysmic Gearhulk is a sacrifice sweeper that spares one of each nonland permanent type. Halvar  and an Equipment left behind is plenty to keep the pressure on. Gearhulk dies to its own ability more often than not, but I'll keep it on board if I'm falling behind and there isn't something else worth holding on to.

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Cavalier of Dawn

The ultimate Voltron utility creature, possessing a great base body to wield Equipment and indispensable removal and recursion effects.

When it enters the battlefield, it destroys anything that's causing me grief and replaces it with a non-threatening Golem token.

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Disruption

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Esper Sentinel

A mini-Rhystic Study on a body, taxing each opponent's noncreature spell or I draw a card. The cost is dependant on the Sentinel's power, which can be increased with Equipment.

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Drannith Magistrate

Prevents opponents from casting their Commanders, among other things. Some decks and strategies completely fall apart when denied their Commander.

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Grand Abolisher

Keeps my turns free from my opponents' shenanigans. Their countermagic is kept at bay and their instant-speed interaction is useless in stopping Halvar's  assault.

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Wandering Archaic  

When on board, opponents are forced to pay an extra when casting their instant and sorcery spells or get a free copies. This trigger is especially effective against countermagic, which are completely botched if their controllers are unable or unwilling to pay.

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Argivian Archaeologist

Repeatable artifact recursion. Left unchecked, it will undo my opponents' attempts to keep Halvar  unarmed. It also creates a card draw engine with Mind Stone and Soul-Guide Lantern and a land drop engine with Angel of the Ruins.

Argivian Archaeologist is unfortunately on the Reserve List and has commanded quite the price tag. No proper replacements exist for it either unless you're willing to add Blue. If you're unable to acquire an Archaeologist, Salvage Scout or Restoration Specialist would be an acceptable substitute.

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Cavalier of Dawn

The ultimate Voltron utility creature, possessing a great base body to wield Equipment and indispensable removal and recursion effects.

When it dies, I get an artifact or enchantment card back from my graveyard. If I need something from my grave right away, I can use its ETB trigger to destroy itself to force its recursion death trigger. (And I get the Golem Token!)

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Sun Titan

The Recursion King of White.

This Giant takes advantage of a well-stocked graveyard and can be a back-up Equipment wielder. It also creates a card draw engine with Mind Stone or Soul-Guide Lantern.

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Protectors

Creatures that can grant protections to my threats and important utility creatures, preventing my opponents from destroying them with kill spells.

• Mother of Runes can target itself, forcing opponents to 'double tap' it to fully remove it.

• Giver of Runes can grant protection from colourless. Obviously detrimental in a deck centered around Equipment, but can occasionally come in handy.

• Devoted Caretaker can target any of my permanents, protecting my Equipment from targeted removal as well as creatures.

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Recruiter of the Guard

A tutor for small creatures. This deck has a variety of utility creatures to choose from.

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Serra Ascendant

The Scourge of Turn 1

Purely a back-up threat without any utility. I've dialed back on creatures that don't do anything beyond attack in this deck, but Ascendant has persisted due to its unique nature as a 6/6 flying lifelinker for a single .

If I happen to have it early-game, I'll forgo playing Halvar  right away and cast Sword of the Realms to support it.

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The Swords are the best Equipment that Halvar   could ever weild. A single Sword's P/T boost push his damage to Two-Shot range and their protections give him evasion to dodge blockers and prevent kill spells from taking him down. On top of that, they provide tremendous value with their triggered abilities, which are doubled by Halvar  dealing combat damage twice each attack.

WhenHalvar  is out, I will prioritize using any available Swords to maximize his efectiveness.

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Sword of Hearth and Home

An excellent land ramp and creature blink engine.

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Sword of Feast and Famine

Untapping lands opens up mana to cast additional creatures, use utility lands more than once in a turn cycle, or have mana available for instants. The repeated discard demolishes my opponents' hands.

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Sword of Fire and Ice

This Sword is the go-to card draw engine of the deck, being the easiest to tutor for. The 2 damage from its trigger can be used to pick off utility creatures and poke Planeswalkers.

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Sword of Light and Shadow

Repetable creature recursion keeps important utility creatures on board and gives me additional uses of ETB triggers and land fetchers. The lifegain is relatively small, but can still buffer my life total from light assaults, offset the damage from Mana Crypt and Ancient Tomb. and trigger Dawn of Hope.

Protection from White and Black together shut off kill spells of the top creature removal colours.

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Sword of Sinew and Steel

The Removal Sword, shattering artifacts and slaughtering Planeswalkers.

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The Swords aren't the only Equipment that can allow Halvar to hit hard. These Equipment also offer the power and evasion that allow him to two-shot or other indispensable benefits.

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Commander's Plate

A Sword-like Equipment providing a larger P/T boost and broader protections.

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Hammer of Nazahn

A well-rounded package providing a power boost, indestructible, and "snap-on" equipping.

Darksteel Plate was used before the Hammer bumped it out of the deck. There's no room for both.

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Sword of Vengeance

A power boost and a collection of keywords. A creature that already has high power can make good use out of those keywords.

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These Equipment offer larger P/T boosts, enabling Halvar  to one-shot opponents or for alternative threats to keep up with everyone's high life totals.

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Living Weapons

Equipment that act like creatures, allowing them to take either role of boosting a threat or being a threat. They also gain Halvar's  double strike automatically and can be attached to him immediately with his triggered ability.

• Batterskull buffers my life total and plays both offence and defense with vigilance. Its self-bounce ability saves itself from removal and can reset its Germ token.

• Kaldra Compleat is an aggressive killing machine as a combination of The Kaldra Set A potent threat on its own, or it can turn anything into a nigh-unstoppable monster.

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Argentum Armor

I see this Equipment as a staple despite its unwieldy costs. It's easy to dodge at least one of them most of the time and it has the the most satisfying payoff for doing so.

I frequently have Stonehewer Giant tutor this up first.

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Blackblade Reforged

A legendary blade that provides a P/T boost based on the number of lands I control. When I have to rely on alternative threats, this is one of the better Equipment to use to take large chunks out of my opponents' life totals.

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Inquisitor's Flail

This deck's damage doubler. A cheap and easy way to increase a creature's damage output. The equipped creature will also take double combat damage, but first strike, double strike,  indestructible, or evasion can dodge this issue.

Using it instead of Fireshrieker, since Halvar  naturally has double strike and hands it out like candy.

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Umezawa's Jitte

A unique Equipment that uses charge counters for various effects. Under normal use, two charge counters are gained per combat. Halvar's   double strike builds charge counters twice as fast.

• The first mode grants the Equipped creature +2/+2 until end of turn. One set of counters offers a substantial boost. Halvar   doubling the counter rate can increases his power to one-shot territory.

• The second mode shrinks a creature by -1/-1 until end of turn. Handy for picking off small creature tokens or utility creatures. Counters can be stockpiled to take out larger threats.

• The third mode gains me 2 life. Not the most used mode, but it can offset damage from Mana Crypt and Ancient Tomb. I use this mode to dump counters in the event Jitte is about to be destroyed.

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Equipment that provide beneficial abilities instead of raw power

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Shadowspear

A mini-Loxodon Warhammer, providing trample and haste.

It's also able to strip hexproof and indestructible form my opponents' permanents, allowing my removal to tag problems they would otherwise miss.

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Swiftfoot Boots

A very handy Equipment providing hexproof and haste. An Equiment Votron deck shouldn't go without it.

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Sword of the Animist

An Equipment that grabs a basic Plains every attack. This continuously builds my mana, eases any missed land drops, and sets up Emeria, the Sky Ruin.

I see Sword of the Animist more as a Mana Rock than a proper Equipment.

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Mana Rocks

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Sol Ring & Mana Crypt

Powerful Mana Rocks providing a substantial bump in mana for minimal costs.

• Sol Ring is the among best Mana Rocks, a staple so ubiquitous it's seen as a symbol of the format. Intentionally excluding it from your deck is a disservice.

• Mana Crypt is ssentially a second Sol Ring. I wouldn't recommend hunting it down if you don't already own one. It's not worth its price tag, especially with the non-zero percent chance of it killing you. And yes, I have died to my own Crypt. Fun times.

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Mind Stone

A Mana Rock that can be popped for a card when it's no longer useful. It also creates a card draw engine with Argivian Archaeologist and Sun Titan.

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Land Fetch

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Expedition Map

Grabs one of the many utility lands this deck uses for whatever the situation calls for.

If played on Turn 1, it can grab Ancient Tomb to cast Halvar  early.

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Sensei's Divining Top

A three-card hand extension. Helps dig for needed cards.

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Soul-Guide Lantern

Grave-hate artifact. Gives me the option to pick one target and draw a card or a full 'yard purge.

Unlike other grave-hate artifacts, my graveyard is untouched. The Lantern lingers in my 'yard for my artifact recursion to get more uses out of it, be it further purges or card draw.

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Smothering Tithe

Creates Treasure tokens when opponents draw cards and don't pay the tax, stockpiling mana between turns.

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Steelshaper's Gift & Open the Armory

Cheap and efficient Equipment tutors. The core of any Equipment Voltron deck.

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Enlightened Tutor

A broader Tutor that can select any artifact or enchantment. Although, I almost always stick with an Equipment. If it's in my opening hand, I may use it to get Mana Crypt and play Halvar  very early. Cataclysmic Gearhulk is another non-Equipment I can grab if I need a sweeper.

Sensei's Divining Top can give me the tutored card right away when cast during my turn.

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Path to Exile & Swords to Plowshares

White's premium kill spells, exiling any problem creature for a single .

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Winds of Abandon

This removal option can be either a kill spell or a full asymmetrical sweeper. Giving opponents a handful of Basics is a lot better than whatever was exiled.

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Heliod's Intervention

A flexible artifact/enchantment removal spell, capable of popping a few toys or a full asymmetrical sweep.

I don't see myself ever using the lifegain mode outside of dire situations.

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Generous Gift & Reduce to Memory

Catch-all removal spells that target anything that ails me, replacing the removed permanent with a non-treatening creature token.

• Generous Gift in particular is capable of taking out a land if I need to.

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Austere Command

A modal spell that adapts to any board state.

Since this deck doesn't use a lot of enchantments, I use the 'Destroy all enchantments' mode as a blank if I don't want to destroy every creature or wish to preserve my Equipment.

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Cast Off

A creature sweeper that leaves behind a vigilant 7/7 on standby in exile. It also conviniently spares Giants.

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Ondu Inversion  

A heavy sweeper that resides in a land slot. If I draw it early or don't need it, I can play the land side instead.

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Slash the Ranks

A creature and Planeswalker sweeper that spares only Commanders. Clears the board for Halvar's  assault.

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Explore the Vastlands

A dig effect for a land drop and a spell. It and Angel of the Ruins are my personal replacement for Land Tax.

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Flawless Maneuver & Teferi's Protection

Spells that spare my board from destruction.

• Flawless Maneuver gives my creatures indestructible and can be cast for free as long as I control my Commander. Protects Halvar  from a kill spell or keeping my creatures alive through a sweeper.

• Teferi's Protection saves me and my board from pretty much everything.

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Sejiri Shelter  

A simple protection spell that resides in a land slot. Handy for saving Halvar  or a key utility creature from a kill spell.

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Sevinne's Reclamation

Sun Titan's trigger as a spell. A flashback cast can quickly rebuild my board after a sweeper.

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Poison is one of the most annoying and hated mechanics in the game. Having your life total effectively be at 10 with no proper counterplay puts players on edge. Cards bearing the infect keyword and the egregious offenders, allowing poison kills to be feasible in this format.

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This deck has access to two major cards with infect: Grafted Exoskeleton and Inkmoth Nexus.

• This deck used Inkmoth Nexus in its early days, used solely as a back-up win-con. There was significant distain in every game I had it out, and victory with it personally felt hollow. I took it out in 2015 when I needed space for another utility land.

• I've never bothered with Exoskeleton. Inkmoth Nexus was as far as I wanted to go. An Equipment offering infect would devolve the deck into achieving poison kills instead of the Commander Damage kills its meant to achieve.

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Poison won't ever be a part of this deck anymore. It sours games and places a unwelcome stigma to anything is appears in.

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Shroud puts a heavy strain on a deck that centers around targeting its own permanents. Being a retired keyword, there's no worry on new cards being printed with shroud. However, there's a small handful of existing cards are worth mentioning, and why they not a part of this deck.

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Lightning Greaves & Whispersilk Cloak

Equipment that offer shroud are the worst offenders. They involve equipping them onto another creature in order to bypass it, creating an opening for my opponents' kill spells. And in the case of Whispersilk Cloak, moving Equipment back and forth eats up a substantial amount of mana.

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Indomitable Archangel & Fountain Watch

Giving artifacts shroud has two issues. The first is free equipping. Halvar's  attach ability requires targeting my own Equipment. The second is artifact creatures. Mass shroud to artifacts prevents them to be equipped at all. These issues currently only affect Halvar  and a few cards in the deck, but future cards may be restricted in the presence of shroud.

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I heavily dislike this style ramp that's been given to White. The purpose of ramp is to create a resource advantage over your opponents. Catch-up ramp doesn't do that. It can only ever bring you at parity with the opponents that ramp, and never give that advantage for yourself.

Ramp that's tied to an opponent's actions causes another problem. Without a Green opponent at the table or their land ramp being played on time, you end up with cards that can't do anything outside of correcting missed land drops. And catch-up ramp is completely ineffective against the opponents that develop their mana with Rocks.

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Despite my animosity, this deck does have a few catch-up cards:

• Knight of the White Orchid and Loyal Warhound are only 2mv, and are decent Equipment wielders. The Knight. isn't even restricted to Basics, and land enters in untapped if I chose to grab one. Nothing beats their efficiency.

• Weathered Wayfarer is a hard land tutor as long as I'm behind. While it's not an actual ramp effect, getting several utility lands this easily is its own advantage. And I can still be up mana if I want to.

These cards are in this deck for building my mana early-game, the same reason others use cheap Mana Rocks. I* use them because they're excellent cards. They just happen to be catch-up effects.

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White doesn't even need to rely on catch-up ramp to alleviate its mana troubles. Sword of Hearth and Home and Sword of the Animist are effective tools at at providing unrestricted land ramp. Catch-up ramp will never come close to providing a Rampant Growth every single turn.

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I don't like these effects in Commander. They'll only give me the win if I have an overwhelming board advantage. Otherwise, I'm either kingmaking or turning the game into an utter mess. I'm not interested in having my deck getting ostricized.

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I don't run all seven Swords because they're not all equal in strength. I value each Sword based on what their triggers offer. I have no desire to use a Sword that doesn't provide anything relevant. There's a finite amount of space for Equipment in this deck. I can't shove everything in without forethought.

I've heard the argument that the Swords can be used "just for the protections." Sword of Light and Shadow is the only Sword I believe this idea applies to, and only because pro-White/Black shuts out the top creature removal colours. However, this deck is still using Sword of Light and Shadow for its triggered ability.

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Sword of Body and Mind

Milling is a terrible win-con in Commander. Multiple opponents with 99-card decks is a harsh order for such a strategy. With the Sword, it would take about 9 hits to deck a single opponent. Dealing 40 damage is a much faster kill.

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Sword of War and Peace

The weakest of the Swords just by its underwhelming trigger. Neither impacts the board nor generates any tangible value. Additional damage and lifegain are provided by other Equipment in better, more consistent quantities.

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Sword of Truth and Justice

This Sword is a proliferate engine. Nothing more. Without a sufficient focus on counters, it doesn't do anything. The +1/+1 counters it comes with isn't enough.

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The Kaldra Set

The original motivation for building this deck.

Unfortunately, they've been heavily antiquated over the years, and I had to drop them. Equipment have gotten much better since their release way back with the debut of the subtype itself. Getting the whole set out at once is also too inconsistent and an inefficient use of tutors. The compleat package that's now available also stifles any chance of the original set coming back.

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Champion's Helm

It only giving hexproof to Legends makes it underwhelming when equipping it to back-up threats. The abundance of Equipment providing protections also harms its effectiveness.

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Colossus Hammer

Even with cards in the 99 that can circumvent equip costs, having a Commander capable of doing so made the Hammer more manageable and consistent. Halvar  doesn't have this luxury.

Why the Hammer isn't in the while the similarly unwieldy Argentum Armor remains is due to the latter's attack trigger. The Armor has a more satisfying payoff for putting up with its high costs.

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Darksteel Plate

Hammer of Nazahn took over its spot for having a much larger application beyond indestructible.

There's no space for both.

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Fireshrieker

ACommander  that naturally has double strike and can give it to olther creatures makes Equipment that offer it awkward. Instead, Inquisitor's Flail is used as this deck's damage doubler.

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Masterwork of Ingenuity

Only three Equipment in this deck are worth copying: Argentum Armor, Batterskull, and Inquisitor's Flail. The Armor's +6/+6 boost and removal trigger are potent things to double up on, cloning Batterskull adds a creature on board, and dual-wielding Flails quadruples the wielder's damage.

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The Mirran and Allied Swords run into massive diminishing returns when copied. Damage-wise, the additional +2/+2 boost doesn't affect Halvar's  clock, and alternative threats aren't going to shred up the board with it either. Also, protection from the same qualities don't stack.

Doubling a Sword's trigger sounds great on paper, but in practice you'll end up with a crowded hand, extra mana going to waste, and removal overkill. Copying your own Sword is essentially a waste of a clone in the long run, especially with a Commander  that already doubles their triggers to begin with.

The rest of my Equipment don't fare any better. More meager P/T boosts, keywords that don't stack, and Legendary weapons that can't be copied at all.

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Clones are only as powerful as what you can copy, and this deck doesn't provide that much to work with.

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Skullclamp

I don't have easy access to expendable X/1s to fuel it. The few cards in the deck that can create such fodder aren't optimal, costing a bit of mana to activate.

The +1/-1 boost is not an ideal P/T modifier for a Voltron deck.

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Creatures

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Armored Skyhunter

Dig effects are way too inconsistent for grabbing Equipment. There's zero control over what you get from them, and it has the chance of whiffing entirely.

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Auriok Steelshaper

Shaving off a single mana from equip costs isn't enough when there are creatures available that attach everything for free.

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Kemba, Kha Regent

This deck has long since abandoned the concept of amassing token armies when she retired as this deck's Commander. It conflicts with this deck's Voltron strategy and I don't have the space to support going wide with tokens.

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Leonin Shikari

I wouldn't get much use out of instant=speed equipping. Blanking killspells with it is a role already provided by Protectors and requires less resources. Moving Equipment during combat doesn't work well when I attack with a single creature the majority of the time.

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Sram, Senior Edificer

With White getting proper card draw, cantrip engines have become less desirable. What hurts him the most is that he doesn't have a secondary function to give him a purpose outside of drawing cards.

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Stone Haven Outfitter

Creatures dying isn't a reliable source of card draw in this deck. I don't go wide enough for an Anthem boost to be effective.

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Enchantments

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Sigarda's Aid

This card has the issue of not having another function once my Equipment are in play. This is especialy a problem when drawn after my hand is spent of its Equipment. I also don't want too many instances of the free equip efects or I'll end up with spares that clog in my hand.

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Relic Seeker & Steelshaper Apprentice

Waiting for an entire turn cycle to get one tutor is really slow and clunky.

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Taj-Nar Swordsmith

This card is hindered by its mana cost. It needs way too much mana at once to tutor up most Equipment.

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I'm intentionally keeping the amount of Mana Rocks in this deck at an absolute minimum, instead focusing more on land ramp. Equipment decks will naturally incentivize heavier use of artifact hate, and non-Equipment artifacts will frequently end up as collateral damage. This deck also has a good number of sweepers  that will ruin all attempts to build mana this way.

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Sol Ring and Mana Crypt are pretty much as far as I want to go with Mana Rocks. Any others would have to offer some form of utility beyond mana production to make me interested in using them.

As for Mana Doublers, I'm abstaining from using Mana Doublers them entirely. They have the same issues that Mana Rocks do, but also have their own individual problems.

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Jeweled Lotus

This fast mana source only works if your Commander can put a strangehold on the entire table Turn 1. Otherwise, you're wasting both your time and space in your deck.

Casting Halvar  early without the ability to follow up with an Equipment is beyond pointless, and only leaves him exposed.

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Inspiring Statuary

It can only affect 29 of the 66 nonland cards this deck has. About 44%. Why would I add a Mana Rock that can only be used to cast less than half of my spells?

Regardless, its inability to make Equipment spells cheaper is an instant deal-breaker.

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Mana Doublers

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Caged Sun

The most expensive Mana Doubler. It eats up a turn's worth of mana without accomplishing anything immediately.

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Extraplanar Lens

This Mana Doubler doesn't function well with a manabase that's nearly half nonbasics lands.

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Gauntlet of Power

This Mana Doubler affects all players, giving my White opponents the Anthem buff and additional mana.

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Darksteel Forge

A 9mv card is the among last things this deck needs. It will rot in my hand way too often before getting the enourmous amount of mana required to cast it.

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Banishing Light et al

I'm not a huge fan of removal that's easily reversible. Simple Naturalize effects or one of my own sweepers   will give opponents their cards back.

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Land Tax

It was in this deck at the beginning, but I disliked waiting for an upkeep trigger and needed something more immediate. It also wasn't the best card to draw late-game.

Angel of the Ruins and Wandering Archaic have taken up its role at providing land.

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Council's Judgment

This card is too political, giving opponents an enormous sway over what gets exiled. They can easily collude against me and collectively vote on something unimportant, botching the entire removal attempt.

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Day of Judgment & Wrath of God

Simple creature sweepers like these are outclassed by newer options that have additional benefits.

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Open the Vaults

I run plenty of other recursion effects that don't involve my opponents getting their toys back.

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Dispatch

White has plenty of efficient creature removal spells available that aren't tied to a prerequisite.

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Return to Dust

Heliod's Intervention took over its spot by being a stronger and more flexible removal spell.

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Tithe

This replaced Land Tax for a brief time before it was also dropped. Angel of the Ruins and Wandering Archaic now fulfil the role of providing land drops.

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• ??? -> Stonecloaker

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With the removal of Scavenger Grounds, I'm down a grave-hate card and wish to go back up to two. Soul-Guide Lantern now covers the 'full purge' role and I need a 'single target' grave-hate option. I'm looking into using Stonecloaker again, due its utility of having flash, saving a creature from death, being a flier, and is tutorable with Recruiter of the Guard.

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• ??? -> [Equipment Slot #18

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An idea I've been mulling over is increasing the Equipment count to 18. I was expecting for the rest of the Allied Swords in Modern Horizons II and had space available for them, but my assumption was incorrect. Although, the new additions did bump the count up to 17.

When another Equipment catches my attention, I'll keep my eye open for space in this deck that can up the count to 18.

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• ??? -> "Sword of Blue and Black"

• ??? -> "Sword of Red and Green"

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The remaining two Allied Swords will likely be printed in a third Modern Hiorizons set. I'll be patiently awating for the rest of the cycle.

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Remember the Fallen was an all-star in the early days of this deck. I took it out for card:Revinne's Reclamation as I was replacing one recursion effect for another. Unfortunately, there are a number of cards with a Mana Value above 3 that this spell misses, particularly creatures. Sword of Light and Shadow and Emeria, The Sky Ruin are the only ones that can bring back this deck's higher cost haymakers, and the latter is incapable of casting Adventures or the back side of Modal DFCs. With the increase of higher costed creatures, another way to get them back into my hand would be nice.