I guess this is sort of a shrine or something? Or do the equipped creatures actually wear the stuff they grab from this pile? I guess whenever they attack they grab another weapon or something.
Comparable to the Ring cycle from M13? This doesn't care about the creature's color and benefits from extra combat steps, but the Rings granted an extra ability and the Creature could just sit there accumulating counters without doing anything. I think I prefer the Rings.
Melubb
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Not great and expensive equip cost (2 colourless).
Leuitikos
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And lo at the end of the enchantment block we have... an interesting equip
Except for the fact that it misses the sacrifice-triggered ability to make it interesting. So as Melubb said, Equip is a lot for what it does.
Giving us the choice of getting either the trigger of the white or the red Ordeal (since Iroas's colors are ) would have made things interesting:
Whenever equipped creature attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on it. Then if it has three or more +1/+1 counters on it, sacrifice Armory of Iroas.
When you sacrifice Armory of Iroas, choose one — Armory of Iroas deals 3 damage to target creature or player; or you gain 10 life.
Equip
Of course getting the trigger by sacrificing an artifact is in general fareasier than saccing an enchantment, but players will have a hard time in this enchantment block to do that. And other formats that could make use of such cards (e.g. from artifact blocks like Mirrodin) are so strong that you don't have to worry about that combo potential.
Talking about cards from Mirrodin: It can be initially faster than Banshee's Blade, but the boost won't trigger when used defensively. Also the boost isn't stored on the equipment but on the creature, which can be both a downside or an upside.
(Flavor Rant: This can be explained through the odd flavor behind it, as anotherfan321 pointed out. By that logic, it should have both a limited amount of wearers since there's eventually nothing left (work with depletion counters) and should be able to be worn by multiple people at once (have Armory of Iroas be an artifact that creates equipment tokens instead). Those again could have triggered from three +1/+1 counters like the original Ordeals. Of course that would be far, far too elaborate for an uncommon, though.)
It's still not terrible in limited. But it could have been Equip easily. In which case it would also compare more favorably to the M13 Rings (e.g. Ring of Thune).
questionflanger
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Awesome EDH card for a counter-based deck. "Oh, uh, Fathom Mage, while you're heading out to attack could you grab a helmet off that pile there?"
WolfWhoWalks
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Apparently, Skullbriar, the Walking Grave is a champion of Iroas..
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Except for the fact that it misses the sacrifice-triggered ability to make it interesting.
So as Melubb said, Equip
Giving us the choice of getting either the trigger of the white or the red Ordeal (since Iroas's colors are
Whenever equipped creature attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on it. Then if it has three or more +1/+1 counters on it, sacrifice Armory of Iroas.
When you sacrifice Armory of Iroas, choose one — Armory of Iroas deals 3 damage to target creature or player; or you gain 10 life.
Equip
Of course getting the trigger by sacrificing an artifact is in general far easier than saccing an enchantment, but players will have a hard time in this enchantment block to do that. And other formats that could make use of such cards (e.g. from artifact blocks like Mirrodin) are so strong that you don't have to worry about that combo potential.
Talking about cards from Mirrodin:
It can be initially faster than Banshee's Blade, but the boost won't trigger when used defensively. Also the boost isn't stored on the equipment but on the creature, which can be both a downside or an upside.
(Flavor Rant: This can be explained through the odd flavor behind it, as anotherfan321 pointed out.
By that logic, it should have both a limited amount of wearers since there's eventually nothing left (work with depletion counters) and should be able to be worn by multiple people at once (have Armory of Iroas be an artifact that creates equipment tokens instead). Those again could have triggered from three +1/+1 counters like the original Ordeals. Of course that would be far, far too elaborate for an uncommon, though.)
It's still not terrible in limited. But it could have been Equip
In which case it would also compare more favorably to the M13 Rings (e.g. Ring of Thune).