Living weapon

Living Weapon
Keyword Ability
Type	Triggered
Introduced	Mirrodin Besieged
Last used	Commander 2015
Reminder Text	Living weapon (When this Equipment enters the battlefield, create a 0/0 black Germ creature token, then attach this Equipment to it.)
Statistics	10 cards Artifact 100%
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Living weapon is a keyword ability for equipment cards introduced in Mirrodin Besieged. It was reused in New Phyrexia and the Commander series.

Description

When a card with Living weapon enters the battlefield, it puts a 0/0 black Germ creature token into play and attaches itself to it. Thus Living weapons are themselves creatures until they die or their controller chooses to upgrade a different creature, with the detaching of the equipment and killing the Germ, as it is now a 0/0 creature. Due to state-based effects it is put into the graveyard and ceases to exist.

Rulings

• Like other Equipment, each Equipment with living weapon has an equip cost. You can pay this cost to attach an Equipment to another creature you control. Once the Germ token is no longer equipped, it will be put into your graveyard, unless another effect raises its toughness above 0.

Germ

Living Weapon does create Germ Creature tokens:

Token Name	Color	Type Line	P/T	Text Box	Source	Printings
Phyrexian Germ	Black	Creature — Phyrexian Germ	0/0		Batterbone Batterskull Bitterthorn, Nissa's Animus Bonehoard Flayer Husk Grip of Phyresis Kaldra Compleat Lashwrithe Mortarpod Necropouncer Nettlecyst Scytheclaw Sickleslicer Skinwing Strandwalker Tangleweave Armor

Trivia

• Living Weapon was featured as rules card 3 of 5 in the Mirrodin Besieged set and as rules card 2 of 4 in the New Phyrexia set.

External links

• A Planeswalker's Primer to Mirrodin Besieged: Living Weapon