So good, but I kinda resent the card. Probably because I like to play non creature decks.
JFM2796
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(3 votes)
Got this in the Mimeoplasm deck. I love the idea of giving your Sharuum the Hegemon a nice pair of shoes. So good without being broken. 5*
DoubleTarget
★★★☆☆ (3.7/5.0)(7 votes)
Lightning Greaves is unquestionably broken to me. A free equip cost means there's almost no decision about whether or not to use it. You simply use it whenever you can. It also allows for some wild combos from Leonin Shikari to Daru Spiritualist to Cephalid Illusionst (the latter two being better with another free equip cost artifact, Shuko). It's dangerous enough that Wizards has to be careful if they decided to ever print another free equip cost equipment with no drawbacks or else they have to make you work for it (see Puresteel Paladin).
That being said, it takes a broken artifact like Lightning Greaves to make creature-based Commander decks viable so that you can make good use of your creatures before they die to spot removal or a board wipe.
Ladnarud
★★★☆☆ (3.7/5.0)(5 votes)
Fun fact: you can't equip anything else to a creature wearing this, because of shroud.
Llama_Horror
★★★☆☆ (3.6/5.0)(10 votes)
Free equip? Bad mechanic.
Ulixes_Pyr
★★★☆☆ (3.1/5.0)(6 votes)
Fun Fact- Because Lightning Greaves can be equipped for 0, you can equip it to another creature, then target the original creature with the desired spell/ability, and after this for 0 you may re-equip Lightning Greaves. Congratulations! Your creature has pseudo-hexproof.
Nosidam3389
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
question... since creatures are spells, and in order to block you have to 'target' an attacker, does this mean that you are, for the most part, unblockable?
ScissorsLizard
★★★☆☆ (3.6/5.0)(4 votes)
@nosidam3389: You don't target an attacker to block them. So, no. Lightning Greaves (or any other shroud effect) will not make you unblockable.
Diabloboy
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
If i only have the lightning greaves out and play a creature, can my opponent target the creature and kill it before i can equip the greaves for protection? Do they get like one shot possibly to kill the creature with an instant before
SweetoothTKC
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(2 votes)
@Diabloboy
Since you equip at Sorcery speed, your opponent can kill your creature in response to the activated ability (equiping is an AA) so, yes, they get about one shot to take him down. If they are tapped out at the time, sucks for them!
It's a real shame I can't put these on a Giant Solifuge.
Tuyut
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(3 votes)
This is amazing with mana generation on creatures (birds, llanowar elves, myrs) because then after you use the mana from the hasty birds and elves to cast say, a fire titan, you put this on it and swing for 9, 6 in the face.
KokoshoForPresident
★★★☆☆ (3.6/5.0)(4 votes)
Ah, Lightning Greaves. The ultimate mana excel tool. What? You don't believe me? Allow me to explain. Turn 1 (on the draw): Forest, Sol Ring, Lightning Greaves. Turn 2: Forest, Birds of Paradise, equip it, tap to play another BoP, equip that one, tap to play another, repeat until you have four BoPs and an Arbor Elf. Equip the elf, tap remaining forest and sol ring, untap and retap forest, play Omnath, Locus of Mana. Turn 3 (Not entirely necessary, but very fun): Draw and play a Seedborn Muse.
kiseki
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Even at zero to equip, it is not automatic. Do you give your newest creature haste? Or do you continue to protect your best creature? Will you need to target that creature during combat? Do you equip it to your only creature, knowing that you won't be able to move it until you get another one? Powerful, but not broken.
DeckMechanic
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
(CURSE YOU, REMINDER TEXT!)
GrimjawxRULES
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(5 votes)
EDH staple. But really, I have never seen an EDH deck that didn't benefit from running both this and Swiftfoot Boots
asskicker123456789
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Shroud is good, but not being able to target your own creatures with spells or abilities can be frustrating.....
alzabo
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(2 votes)
Can we get some new art, please.
TwentyFifthBaam
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(4 votes)
Are you a big creatures person? Do you like your 8/8's hasted and shrouded? Then this is for you!
Are you a big combo person? Having trouble keeping your Master Transmuter alive? This card's for you!
This card's pwn just 'cause of its 0 cost. Swiftfoot boots isn't broken like this one merely because it costs 1 more for hexproof. This ones just ridiculous. In my artifact deck I play Leonin Abumas and laugh when I've got this card because nothing can ever be targeted again on my side of the board.
5/5
BongRipper420
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
I really want to make room for this in my Elf Ramp deck, but Concordant Crossroads does the haste job so much better. Yeah, it gives haste to my opponent's creatures. But it also gives all of my elves haste for even less mana, which means my opponent won't even get to use the haste most of the time; they'll be dead.
Still, a dope card that's probably overpowered.
even22even
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Question... Let's say that I have several creatures in play, and one of them is equiped with Lightning Greaves. During my turn my opponent casts an instant targeting one of the creatures not equiped with Lightning Greaves. Can I move the Greaves to the targeted creature thus nullifying their casted instant?
Kaleidostorm
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
The only mercy this card gives is that Equipping is a sorcery speed action.
lebou04
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
well, I guess 2 x lightning greaves and 2 x asceticism, I should do fine with those @!#$% of direct dommage decks!
Lightning what?!
Lifegainwithbite
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
My favourite card in Magic by far. I always have to find excuses not to run it in specific decks.
Antsache
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(2 votes)
@even22even
No, you cannot do that. As noted elsewhere in these comments, equipping an artifact is (unless noted otherwise) done at sorcery speed. Therefore, you may not respond to the casting of a spell or activation of an ability with it. The stack must be clear for you to move the greaves.
Araganor
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
What were they smoking, this is crazy good.
TheWrathofShane
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Its close enough to a cheaper, colorless fervor that also gives 1 creature at a time shroud. The one difference is that you cant give a fresh swarm of tokens haste, but most of the time thats not relevant.
The balancing team sucked hard in mirrodin, and it showed on like all of the uncommon.
.5/5 for balancing.
Zylo-
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Lightning Greaves are pure power in any deck.... 5 out of 5 stars...
Play with 2 of these in almost any deck if you have not tried these yet.. You will fall in love, using everything from creatures with tap abilities like Royal Assassin to an all out assault with Baneslayer Angel.
The artwork is fantastic, very powerful looking... I have 8 copies and want more.. These really do fit into almost any deck.
Dragonshoredreamz
★☆☆☆☆ (1.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Such an incredible artifact.
VineMaple253
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(1 vote)
One of my favorite Magic cards. Goes great on my Guardian Beast in my EDH deck if I don't draw my Swiftfoot Boots first. It also helps my commander a lot too, Bartel Runeaxe.
MisterAction
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(3 votes)
Without thinking, I put this in my Lazav, DImir Mastermind EDH. The first time I played it, this happened:
Me: I cast lightning greaves! Friend: Your commander is already hexproof. Why are you using this? Me: I... um... I don't know... it's lightning greaves. Anyway, your turn. Friend: Okay, I cast Oblivion Ring on your lightning greaves. Me: Why did you do that? My commander is hexproof. Friend: Because it's lightning greaves.
THAT'S how good this card is. And lightning greaves is still in my Lazav EDH.
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That being said, it takes a broken artifact like Lightning Greaves to make creature-based Commander decks viable so that you can make good use of your creatures before they die to spot removal or a board wipe.
Since you equip at Sorcery speed, your opponent can kill your creature in response to the activated ability (equiping is an AA) so, yes, they get about one shot to take him down. If they are tapped out at the time, sucks for them!
Turn 1 (on the draw): Forest, Sol Ring, Lightning Greaves.
Turn 2: Forest, Birds of Paradise, equip it, tap to play another BoP, equip that one, tap to play another, repeat until you have four BoPs and an Arbor Elf. Equip the elf, tap remaining forest and sol ring, untap and retap forest, play Omnath, Locus of Mana.
Turn 3 (Not entirely necessary, but very fun): Draw and play a Seedborn Muse.
Are you a big combo person? Having trouble keeping your Master Transmuter alive? This card's for you!
This card's pwn just 'cause of its 0 cost. Swiftfoot boots isn't broken like this one merely because it costs 1 more for hexproof. This ones just ridiculous. In my artifact deck I play Leonin Abumas and laugh when I've got this card because nothing can ever be targeted again on my side of the board.
5/5
Still, a dope card that's probably overpowered.
Lightning what?!
No, you cannot do that. As noted elsewhere in these comments, equipping an artifact is (unless noted otherwise) done at sorcery speed. Therefore, you may not respond to the casting of a spell or activation of an ability with it. The stack must be clear for you to move the greaves.
The balancing team sucked hard in mirrodin, and it showed on like all of the uncommon.
.5/5 for balancing.
Play with 2 of these in almost any deck if you have not tried these yet.. You will fall in love, using everything from creatures with tap abilities like Royal Assassin to an all out assault with Baneslayer Angel.
The artwork is fantastic, very powerful looking... I have 8 copies and want more.. These really do fit into almost any deck.
Me: I cast lightning greaves!
Friend: Your commander is already hexproof. Why are you using this?
Me: I... um... I don't know... it's lightning greaves. Anyway, your turn.
Friend: Okay, I cast Oblivion Ring on your lightning greaves.
Me: Why did you do that? My commander is hexproof.
Friend: Because it's lightning greaves.
THAT'S how good this card is. And lightning greaves is still in my Lazav EDH.