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Strong Back
Card Information
Type: Enchantment — Aura
Mana Cost: 2
CMC: 3
Part of the Reserved List: No
Color Identity:
Set: Fallout (PIP)
Rarity: Rare
Collector Number: 83
Oracle Text
Enchant creature Equip abilities you activate that target enchanted creature cost {3} less to activate. Aura spells you cast that target enchanted creature cost {3} less to cast. Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 for each Aura and Equipment attached to it.
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Format Legalities
Card Rulings
- March 8, 2024
Strong Back’s third ability won’t reduce its own cost.
Source: wotc - March 8, 2024
Strong Back’s abilities reduce only the amount of generic mana in equip abilities that target the enchanted creature and in the total cost of Aura spells that target the enchanted creature. For example, it will reduce the total cost of Animal Friend from {1}{G} to {G}.
Source: wotc - March 8, 2024
Some Equipment creature cards in other sets have reconfigure, a different ability that attaches them to a creature. Reconfigure is not an equip ability, and reconfigure costs are not reduced by Strong Back’s second ability. Equip variants or equip abilities with restrictions, like the “equip Citizen” ability of Ceremonial Groundbreaker from the Streets of New Capenna® set, are still equip abilities, and their costs will be reduced by Strong Back’s second ability.
Source: wotc
Price History
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