There're better ways to get all of these abilities, and most of those other options also come with power and toughness boosts. Sometimes they just do nothing, and that's a high risk on a three-mana card. Haste and vigilance are both good, but they both are very high variance. The other two abilities here aren’t enough upside. Even O-Naginata will often be better than this. You can basically copy paste the bit I said above, but even if you want trample this badly, there're cards that give trample and do more than this that you could play instead. Yes, this is another Equipment where one of the primary functions is to give trample. If you’ve been following this series for a while, you can probably guess how I’m gonna feel about this card. The cheapest Equipment tend to be some of the most played, so I can partly see why this card is so high, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen this card in play. If you came to me and said “guess which Equipment are in the top 50,” I don’t think I ever would have said Haunted Cloak. Over, Under, or Just Right? Underplayed: I don’t even think this card is that amazing, but if you’re running a card that primarily gives trample, and you wouldn’t run Prowler’s Helm, maybe you don’t need the trample either. Helm has a pretty reasonable Equip cost for what it does, so why bother with the diet options? I'll grant you that the difference between paying one mana for something like Vorrac Battlehorns instead of two mana for this is fairly big, but Helm is also a substantially better card. It’s not like the cost of this effect is massive. I don't see a strong argument against running this card over most of the random trample Equipment we've seen. You wanna hit for 47, you can hit for 47. No getting stopped by big creatures, or multiple creatures, or flying creatures. Unless you happen to run into an Arcades, the Strategist deck, Helm is going to make your dork unblockable regardless of the board state. If you want your giant beatsticks to get through so badly you’re willing to run Ring of Kalonia, just invest one more in the Equip cost and run a Prowler’s Helm instead. Over, Under, or Just Right? Overplayed: This is no place for half efforts! 39: Prowler's Helm : 5,799 Decks What about when we get them Equipped? Let’s play dorks like Fencing Ace, and Prophetic Flamespeaker to get double Axes, or even Parallel Lives to go super nutty! Look if we’re gonna do this thing, we’re gonna commit to it. I’m talking Sigarda’s Aid, Puresteel Paladin, and Hammer of Nazahn. If we’re doing this, we’re going all out! I’m talking Vulshok Battlemaster, Kazuul’s Toll Collector, and Armory Automaton. You may have thought from the previous paragraph that I don’t like this card, but that, my dear friend, is false. I don't hate it, but on its own, it is a bit slow. Plus, if your dork dies, you’re almost never gonna have the mana to attach the six or so Axes you've acquired. That isn’t a bad rate, but then you have to pay two mana every time for each subsequent Axe, which gets pretty mana-intensive after a while. It starts out as a more-expensive-to-equip Bonesplitter. A classic archetype, but with a twist! Dana takes us through his Equipment deck, highlighting the ways it deviates from the data and the most important lessons learned from brewing off-the-wall strategies.I’m actually not a huge fan of Bloodforged Battle-Axe in the average Equipment deck.
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