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Heavy Arbalest

Card Name

Heavy Arbalest

Mana Cost

3

Type

Artifact – Equipment

Rarity

Uncommon

rules Text

Equipped creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.Equipped creature has ": This creature deals 2 damage to target creature or player."Equip
4

Legal Formats

Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage

Not Legal Formats

Alchemy, Brawl, Explorer, Historic, Pauper, Pioneer, Standard

Rulings

(3/16/2018)
The equipped creature is the source of both the damage ability and the resultant damage, not Heavy Arbalest. For example, if Heavy Arbalest equips a green creature, the ability can target a creature with protection from artifacts but not one with protection from green.
(3/16/2018)
The creature that doesn't untap during its controller's untap step is the one that Heavy Arbalest is equipped to as that untap step begins. If a creature was tapped to activate the ability granted to it by the Arbalest, but the Arbalest is no longer equipping it, it will untap as normal.