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Artifact — Equipment
LegalRank #258
Equipped creature has deathtouch and lifelink. (Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy it. Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
Equip 
(: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
KeywordsEquip
Why is this card good?
Basilisk Collar is one of the best one-mana equipment in the format, and its power scales way beyond its cost.
The magic is in the combination: deathtouch means any damage kills, and lifelink turns that damage into life. On a normal attacker that's fine, but the Collar shines on pingers and damage-dealers. Slap it on a Walking Ballista, Reckless Fireweaver, or any "deal X damage to target creature" effect and you're machine-gunning down the whole board while gaining life. It famously turns red ping-damage commanders like Torbran or burn-matters decks into removal engines.
Best homes: deathtouch/pinger decks, lifegain (Heliod), big-mana voltron, and any deck wanting cheap, repeatable removal-on-a-stick. The equip cost is trivial to recur.
Don't bother in decks with no way to deal noncombat damage and no relevant combat creatures — a vanilla beater gets less from it than from any number of bigger equipment. It's a synergy piece, not a generic goodstuff include.
equip cost is trivial to recur.
Don't bother in decks with no way to deal noncombat damage and no relevant combat creatures — a vanilla beater gets less from it than from any number of bigger equipment. It's a synergy piece, not a generic goodstuff include.Related cards
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