Crude Bent Blade
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A strong common that combines an edict with a lasting +2/+1 Equipment, often generating card advantage despite letting the opponent choose what dies. It is best when cast before the opponent develops expendable tokens, and its power boost can enable Ferocious.
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Gameplay notes
Cast it before combat when removing even the opponent's weakest creature opens an attack. Against token decks, deploy it early before they can insulate their valuable creatures with expendable bodies. Remember that casting and equipping it in the same turn costs five mana.
Key synergies
Crude Bent Blade forces a creature to die, reducing Dreaded Bat-Cloud's cost by three and potentially letting you cast the Bat for two mana in the same turn.
With Head of the Hunt in play, the creature sacrificed to the Blade is exiled instead and produces a 2/2 Wolf, making the edict generate both removal and an additional body.
After the Blade forces a sacrifice on entry, Thorin can move it without paying equip {2}; its +2 power increases the immediate damage dealt by Thorin's trigger.
Casting the noncreature Equipment triggers Noisemaker to amass Goblins 1, so the same spell removes an opposing creature, grows or creates an Army, and leaves behind Equipment.
Equipping the 2/2 Wargling makes it a 4/3, turning on its own Ferocious attack trigger and granting your team trample.
Equipping Ravening Warg makes it a 4/3 deathtouch creature, allowing it to enable its own Ferocious trigger while becoming extremely difficult to block profitably.
The Blade adds 2 power to a creature before Bolg sacrifices it, increasing both Bolg's removal range and potential excess damage while leaving the Equipment available for reuse.
The Mauler makes the Blade's equip {2} free, efficiently turning the one-drop into a 4/2 after the Equipment has already forced an opposing sacrifice.
Crude Bent Blade removes an opposing creature and then gives The Chief Warg +2/+1, turning it into a 5-power creature that enables its own Ferocious trigger.
Crude Bent Blade supplies another equipped attacker for Dáin's trigger, and its +2 power is applied in both combat-damage steps when that attacker gains double strike.
Crude Bent Blade forces an opponent to sacrifice a creature, putting that creature card into their graveyard for Supper for Spiders to return as Food later that turn.