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Ragged Short Spear

common Artifact — Equipment

When this enters, you may discard a card. If you do, draw two cards.

Equipped creature gets +2/+0.

Equip ( : Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a .)

C+ Grade from the win rate

Win rate when drawn 56.0% −0.2 vs average 26,261 games

Win rates and picks

56.1% 58,785 games
Average pick ()
8.8

By deck

  • Goblin Army 56.2% 12,343 games
  • Dwarves & Equipment 56.2% 11,578 games
  • Burn and Draw 53.5% 810 games

Win rates from , 323,114 games. This card is compared with the set average (56.2%).

Reviews

Tormenting Voice is a card that tends to see play every now and again, but it appears in basically every set. Much like last year's Melded Moxite, Ragged Short Spear looks like a very good variant of this effect because it gives you a very real in addition to the draw two. Sure, 3 mana is a lot to equip, but you did get this for free, so that's not a big issue.

Ragged Short Spear is a very neat little package. For two mana you get to draw some cards and leave behind a moderately effective . This looks like being better than the sum of its parts. Tormenting Voice is usually fine, and the Equipment, while not amazing, does play nicely with other cards in the set.

How to draft it

Roles in each deck

  • Dwarves & Equipment Gets you extra cards

    Ragged Short Spear lets you discard a card to draw two when it enters, which fixes a hand of too many lands. It is also an for Kíli and a noncreature spell for Bothersome Noisemaker, and later it gives +2/+0 for equip .

    How to play it

    Discard a land you don't need, or a second Dori while the first is on the battlefield. Move it with Kíli's free equip or onto Dwarven Mauler for , since is a lot.

    Learn the Dwarves & Equipment deck

  • Burn and Draw Gets you extra cards

    Discarding a card to draw two as it enters is good value, but +2/+0 rarely matters in a deck that blocks, and the equip is steep.

    How to play it

    Cast it when you have an extra land or a card to discard. The one creature worth equipping is Bilbo, Luckwearer, an unblockable 3-power attacker.

    Learn the Burn and Draw deck