Goblin Plate Mail
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A strong common that initially provides either a 2/1 menace Army or adds two effective power and menace to an existing Army. The equip cost is expensive, but the Equipment remains useful after the Army dies and supports both BR Amass and RW artifact strategies.
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Gameplay notes
If you already control an Army, the amass counter and Equipment are consolidated onto it rather than creating another creature, producing a stronger but more removal-vulnerable threat. After the equipped creature dies, move the Plate Mail only when the menace is worth spending four mana or when an equip-cost reducer is available.
Key synergies
Thorin bypasses the Plate Mail's expensive equip {4}, adds its +1 power to the attachment damage, and leaves the concentrated equipped threat with menace.
Goblin Plate Mail's amass ability puts a counter on a Goblin or Army, immediately triggering The Great Goblin for 2 damage; the resulting Goblin Army also enables its death trigger later.
The Plate Mail entering triggers Kíli's Equipment card draw, and after Storied is active Kíli can reduce its otherwise prohibitive equip cost from four mana to zero.
Goblin Plate Mail starts or enlarges the same Army that Gathering of Darkness amasses onto, then gives that concentrated counter-bearing threat +1/+0 and menace. Together they can quickly produce a large Army that is difficult to block profitably.
Casting Goblin Plate Mail first triggers Bothersome Noisemaker to amass 1, then the Equipment amasses 1 again and attaches to the Army, producing two counters while also granting the enlarged Army +1/+0 and menace.
Goblin Plate Mail establishes or enlarges the Army, then gives that Army menace and extra power; Misty Mountains Raider repeatedly adds two more counters to the equipped Army, making its evasion increasingly threatening.
The automatically equipped Army receives double strike when it attacks with Dáin, effectively doubling the Plate Mail's power bonus while menace makes the enhanced attacker difficult to block.
Dwalin places hone counters directly on the Plate Mail, permanently increasing the power bonus it grants; menace then helps convert that extra power into player damage.
Both cards build the same Army; Rage increases the menace-equipped Army's power, making it substantially harder to block profitably.
Goblin Plate Mail establishes a Goblin Army and gives it menace; when Fearsome Goblin Pair dies, its four counters are added to that equipped Army, producing a much larger evasive threat.
Dwarven Mauler reduces equip {4} to {2}, making it much easier to move the Plate Mail from the Army it initially equips and give the Mauler +1/+0 and menace.
Both cards amass onto the same Goblin Army, while Goblin Plate Mail automatically equips that Army and grants menace, making the Saga's chapter II counter contribute to an evasive, increasingly large threat.
Goblin Plate Mail counts as Equipment for both of The Lonely Mountain's bonuses, reducing the cost of producing Dwarves that can later carry the Plate Mail when the original Army is unavailable.