Equipment should be supports

mrixl2520

A lot of equipment cards have been made into spell cards, and I think this is a big mistake. Equipment is supposed to function as a buff that can move around, so when the equipped creature dies you still have the buff at the ready. Making equipment into spells creates a number of problems:

1) The aforementioned: Equipment doesn’t stick around, it only lives on the one creature it targets. It makes “Spells” like Slayers Plate powerful, but not as good as something that can re-attach after the creature dies.
2) It doesn’t create a support gem. A weird complaint, but since it is already established that equipment are permanents this is sometimes relavent.
3) They should occupy support slots in decks, not spell slots.
4) As spells, you can cast them on your opponent’s creatures. I can only think of one reason to do this and it is “Skeleton key”. Just Sit back watch them discard every turn. Side Tangent: Why doesn’t “Skeleton Key” draw a card?!?
5) For planeswalkers who care about supports (Sorrin & Tezzeret), they are *further* devalued by equipment becoming spells.

I'm on the fence as to how I feel about enchantments as spells, but I definitely think equipment needs to stay as supports

Ertai Planeswalker

I agree, it's the defining trait of equipments and what sets them aside from spells in the first place.

poorpirate

I disagree. Some equipment are supports already, and I think the mix of implementation as spell or support allows for better use of design space. Take Haunted Cloak as an example. That card would be much worse as a support because you couldn't actually give haste to any but the first creature you control and you would lose the ability to pick which of your creatures you want to have block.

There are already plenty of good effects tied to supports if you just want to fill your deck with them, and plenty of equipment are already implemented this way if you want those supports to buff your creatures.