Traits of Good Equipment Cards in MTG Low mana value: Equipment typically dont do anything when they enter the battlefield, so you generally dont want to invest more than 3 mana to cast one unless the payoff is phenomenal
Some of them are genuinely funny goofy flavor text, absurd art, Pokmon doing things no 'creature battle game' should contain
VS Burn: Out: In: This is a pretty imprecise approach, but you get punished hard for garbaging up your deck
Then your Commander will come back with a +1/+1 counter when it dies, if it didn't have one, so that's a nice way of getting one free redo before it heads to your Command Zone, which also encourages the swinging
At two mana, the opportunity cost is real low here
A 10-rated Neo Genesis Lugia took in over $125,000 at auction and is one of the few cards that can command high-five-figure sums