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I think this is an underrated card.

best used with as many attackers as possible

very boros

@ Tezz: Well, the Paruns were a branch of the Boros, weren't they? Or was that the Azorius?

The Paruns are just the heads of each guild, so each guild has a Parun.

techs with Priest of Titania and friends, but Staff of Domination probably does this better.

The Paruns were the ten original guild leaders that signed the guildpact thousands of years ago. Some of them were still around at the time of Ravnica block, some weren't. Niv-Mizzet is a Parun, but Savra isn't.

Run with rofellos, llanowar emissary, priest of titania, or magus of the coffers.

I have an EDH monowhite equipment deck with Kemba, kha regent as general. I was browsing for equipment, and when I saw this, I nearly drooled. Such a nice piece of equipment for a general, both gamewise and flavourwise.

Another card impeded by the M10 rules changes.

Was it worth it, Wizards?

Excuse me, but has anyone read the Izzet style guide? It confirms that this is an Izzet sword.

That aside, nice card. It does funky things with your army, whether you play offensively or defensively. Also, it loves Prodigal Pyromancer!

This sword was probably made by some Izzet artificers, but it's not owned by them.
List of Paruns alive at the beginning (yeah, some die) of Ravnica: Niv-Mizzet, Szadek, Razia, Svogthos (probably, unconfirmed), and Razia.

Works great with Elemental Mastery or Kamahl, Pit Fighter, or any card that has an ability that requires tapping that doesn't cost mana (unless you have excessive amounts of mana to spend on both the ability and the untapping). If you just want to untap, Umbral Mantle is clearly better though.

I'm trying this with Rabble-Rouser in a Commander deck I built for a friend.

@kryptnyt It's too bad Staff of Domination was banned in EDH, for anyone who doesn't understand why this card is underrated I will try to the best of my ability to explain

Artifact — Equipment
Card Text:
As long as equipped creature is tapped, tapped creatures you control get +2/+0.
garbage nobody cares about
As long as equipped creature is untapped, untapped creatures you control get +0/+2.
nobody cares about this either

:You may tap or untap equipped creature.
This is the only thing anyone cares about, its not quite Pemmin's Aura or Freed from the Real but hey its colorless and it's what you are gonna run in EDH if you aren't running blue but need an untap engine for your combo
Equip 3

A decent way to get infinite mana with certain elves and what not, but I think Staff of Domination is more ideal if your planning on having infinite mana, not only because it can get you all that mana, but it give you more than enough things to do with that mana to win the game.

Stack tricks were too confusing for new players, and bad for the game.
This is still a fine card without the stack tricks.

Rakdos the Defiler, Lord of Riots: the oldest, most consistent, most powerful Guild Leader. A Parun.
Niv-Mizzet the Firemind, Dracogenius: probably the second-oldest Parun.

Svogthos, the Restless Tomb: Golgari's Guildmaster history is wierd. Being what they are, I'm not sure a Golgari guildmaster has ever been really destroyed. Svogthos I believe was their representative in the original Guildpact spell.
Szadek, Lord of Secrets: No doubt one of the oldest beings on Ravnica (or Argyrem now), but I think not a very great deal older than Isperia. Certainly younger than Rakdos, but nearly as powerful because has brain.

Obzedat and Azor: the Ghost Council of Orzhova is probably both the most rotating but the least changing Guildmaster on Ravnica, and is as stale and dead as ever. It's kind of Rakdos' THING to be wild and crazy and so Rakdos himself breaking Rakdos Traditions IS Traditional.....xP Nothing like that for Orzhov. Policies have been the same damned bad deals forever. Grand Arbiter is a title of the original successorship of Azorius Senate's leadership, Azor was the first. The title is now Supreme Judge, and if you're looking for 'oldest, most powerful, and most authoritative creatures on Ravnica', the Isperia woudn't be a bad case.
Razia, Boros Archangel is probably the most powerful and oldest non-Planeswalker to ever outright get murdered in the MTG storyline that I've heard of. If you have knowledge of even higher ranked Heroes meeting untimely ends, she ranks up there at least as high as Gil-Galad. But not, maybe, as high as Ecthelion who 1v.1'd the Chief Balrog in Gondolin.

Momir Vig may have been the Parun of Simic, but I can't confirm or deny it. His guildmastership was marked as being quite similar to Niv-Mizzet's (the Guild was his toy that he made in his own image). As an elf, he could conceivably have been old enough, but 10,000 is long even for them, so maybe not.

No clue who the Gruul or Selesnya Paruns might have been. Well, the Selesnya Parun might just be "The Force according to Ravnican Jedi".

The Paruns of the Guildpact are probably some of the most powerful beings in the Multiverse that aren't Planeswalkers, and for all we know, some of them have the possibility of being Planeswalkers in the future (Niv-Mizzet. It would take comic book logic, but Wizards is more than up to that.)

I'm inclined to say that the ''weakest'' of the Guilds by Strength of Paruns or by Number of times Leadership has changed are Simic, Gruul, and Azorius

The most powerful are without a doubt Rakdos, Boros, and Orzhov

The two with wildly far-reaching potential physically and magically are Golgari and Dimir, but their real strength is quite defined by how aggressive and how naturally powerful the Guildmaster is at the time. Rakdos, Boros, and Orzhov beat the reast of the Guilds because their Guildmasters are the most Immortal, most Magical, and most Physically intimidating all at once. Isperia might be almost on their footing, though.

It's not that I don't respect Izzet or Selesnya, but they've actually been the most relatively restrained, which accounts for their high marks in Stability, and I don't see either of them going way, but I don't see either of them taking over either. Niv-Mizzet aims to disprove me.

Final Note: there's a teeny tiny chance that Simic and Gruul, both being Green, can trace their Guildmasters to Super Godlike Monster Paruns- Gruul seems to believe in a Boar God, and a Giant Leviathan of Simic is not unimaginable. These would place them level with, I think, Golgari and Dimir, but they'd have to be REALLY impressive BEASTS to make me think A Demon, an Angel, and a Ghost Council actually could lose in a fight to them.

Some people think Niv-Mizzet is, like, as cool and therefore unstoppable as Nicol Bolas. Flat B.S. He's as ambitious, but he's way too young, naive, and merciful to be compared to Nicol Bolas. He'll never be that powerful because he's too religiously committed to Red and Blue to gain any more colors. 3 colors, 20,000 years seniority, a Planeswalker spark, plus being from a stronger line of Dragon blood mean Bolas outclasses him even in his decrepit senile years, when Niv-Mizzet is at his zenith.

Szadek the Vampire got beat by a dead human cop. Yeah, it was his plan all along, but that seems like a strange plan that wouldn't be necessary if he had enough brute force. Physically, but not Magically, relatively Weak.

Hold the phone. I don't care if it's a collect call.

So let me get this straight: This is a colourless artifact that gives the equipped creature the ability to untap for only ?

As in, once you have 4 forests and equip this to Rofellos, Llanowar Emissary, you have infinite mana? And you can play that in an Ezuri elf EDH deck?

Ok, good. You can go back to your phone sex or whatever.