10 Most Powerful Equipments In Magic: The Gathering

This card doesn’t look like much, and Wizards of the Coast must have agreed, but everyone at the time quickly saw their mistake. Skull Clamp was banned in the standard set it was released in for being too good, but the casual observer might not see why. How can a card which gives a creature +1/-1 be one of the most broken equipment cards in the game?

Well, the -1 toughness debuff is actually what makes this card so powerful. By equipping this for only 1 mana onto a creature which already has 1 toughness, you gain yourself 2 cards. Furthermore, this effect can be repeated on all of your low health creatures to refill your hand as often as you want. This is amazing, even for vanilla creatures with no abilities.

However, when merged with cards that have triggered effects when they’re either destroyed or simply leave the battlefield, you gain a ridiculous amount of value for killing off your own creatures. Furthermore, in the right reincarnation decks or scavenge decks when you want your creatures to die, Skull Clamp proves as a useful way of killing them.