Riot Gear

Goatllama 2013-01-22

★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (6 votes)

Quick! There's not enough equipment in this set, throw in a super bland one! Though honestly, even the bland aspects of design need to be explored. And the flavor is still good.

lorendorky 2013-01-22

☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)

the art is sweet, the card is unfathomably dull.

Abl 2013-01-22

☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0) (2 votes)

Odd. Card is awfully generic, and "riot gear" gives you higher toughness than power? I admit that the flavor text alludes to self defense, but there are SPIKES on the gear in the art.

SyntheticDreamer 2013-01-22

☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)

Why does this exist? Did we just need more common equipment or something?

raptorman333 2013-01-23

★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0) (2 votes)

just good in limited. terrible everywhere else.
compare to civic saber. in this block, bland equipments roam free

Khazuki 2013-01-23

☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)

I'm not even sure this is good in limited. At 1 to equip, sure, but 2? Nooooo. :C

Ferlord 2013-01-23

★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0) (6 votes)

And Wizards said, "Since this isn't the plane of metalworkers, artifacts and blacksmiths, let's just make it just slightly worse than Vulshok Morningstar", and there was mediocrity.

Purplerooster 2013-01-24

☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)

The most generic artifact equipment in the world!

Tiggurix 2013-01-24

★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (4 votes)

Missed opportunity. This could have been a counterpart to Trusty Machete, and thus much better.

grynning 2013-01-24

★★★★☆ (4.9/5.0) (4 votes)

I agree w/Tiggurix...this really should have cost 1 to drop, 2 to equip.

Curlie-Joe 2013-01-24

★★★★☆ (4.6/5.0) (4 votes)

well yeah, this is lame... but during limited, if I get a high priest of penance, this will be on him, lickity-split

then the chump-blocking will commence, as well as fighting, as well as plinking

A3Kitsune 2013-01-25

☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)

Good on any 1-toughness creature. Well, not "good", per say, but not bad.

deserter 2013-01-25

☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0) (1 vote)

Loxodon Rakdos heh

Taudisban 2013-01-25

★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (2 votes)

For those of you that don't think hexproof is worth an extra mana.

A card named riot gear could have been so much better.

Mode 2013-01-26

★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0) (2 votes)

"And Wizards said: 'Since this isn't the plane of metalworkers, artifacts and blacksmiths, let's just make it just slightly worse than Vulshok Morningstar', and there was mediocrity."

@Ferlord I wouldn't call cutting the power boost by half "just slightly worse", though. I'd go with what Tiggurix said:

"Missed opportunity. This could have been a counterpart to Trusty Machete, and thus much better."

Ligerman30 2013-01-26

★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0) (1 vote)

Compare to Manriki-Gusari or Trusty Machete. Oh well, it's a bad card, but, I just imagine someone making a sweet altered art version with a police officer in riot gear. Honestly, that's the only thing this card has going for it aside from barely making every limited deck (don't play this in cube).

2/5

DoragonShinzui 2013-01-30

★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0) (3 votes)

"Gentlemen! I have a plan!"
"Okay, I'm listening..."
"We shall make a crappier version of Vulshok Morningstar!"
"...Who are you and how did you get into our development meeting?"

HuntingDrake 2013-02-15

★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0) (2 votes)

Vulshock Morningstar was so backbreakingly good. This is perfectly fair. I'd play one in any creature-based draft deck for sure.

chainsmoker 2013-03-12

☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)

this loxodon clearly lost it, got a brain of a goblin. traded a longsword for a shiny heavy arm guard. what a poor card.

AshToMoutHound 2013-03-21

☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)

You could make someone believe this is Illusionist's Bracers... If that someone would be very, very drunk.

Yukikah 2014-02-11

☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)

Take Leonin Scimitar, add +0/+1... makes it cost 1 more and 1 more to equip. Not to mention the whole losing +1/+0 off Vulshock Morningstar... This really is one of those few cards where you really wonder what they were thinking when they made it.

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