FromTheShire: This is a solid, fairly inexpensive equipment that's cheaper to put on your Voltron creature and give both a good power buff and the very useful first strike
I thought people were giving me what I perceived to be bad deck-building advice because they just fundamentally couldnt process the information presented quickly and efficiently
It's one of the best early plays you could make during its time in Standard, leading it to be banned in May 2023
Then players open their second pack, repeating the above procedure, except this time passing cards to the right
You dont even need it in a red deck thanks to it not requiring a mana cost, and paying for a generic mana cost ahead of schedule is more than enough for the card to be good
The spellslinger archetype has plenty of depths, with token decks, burn decks, and storm decks all comfortably falling within the limitations of extracting the most value from your instants and sorceries (with some modern cards including other noncreature spells), so theres a little something for everybody