Mortarpod
- Mana cost
- {2}
- Type
- Artifact — Equipment
- Set
- Duel Decks: Mirrodin Pure vs. New Phyrexia #68 (uncommon)
Living weapon (When this Equipment enters, create a 0/0 black Phyrexian Germ creature token, then attach this to it.)
Equipped creature gets +0/+1 and has "Sacrifice this creature: This creature deals 1 damage to any target."
Equip {2}
Mortarpod has 5 printings, first in Mirrodin Besieged (2011). EDHREC ranks it #16,909 among Commander cards. It appears most in Cass, Hand of Vengeance decks (454 on EDHREC). It has 5 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Mortarpod most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Cass, Hand of Vengeance: 454 decks
- Koll, the Forgemaster: 431 decks
- Firion, Wild Rose Warrior: 63 decks
- Rasputin Dreamweaver: 53 decks
- Barret Wallace: 30 decks
- Rhuk, Hexgold Nabber: 20 decks
- Inga Rune-Eyes: 8 decks
- Stick, Fearless Mentor: 1 decks
Often played with Mortarpod
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : If you sacrifice the equipped creature to deal 1 damage to a target permanent or player, the damage is dealt by the creature as it last existed on the battlefield.
- : If the living weapon trigger causes two Germs to be created (due to an effect such as that of Doubling Season), the Equipment becomes attached to one of them. The other will be put into your graveyard and subsequently cease to exist, unless another effect raises its toughness above 0.
- : 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 and subsequently cease to exist, unless another effect raises its toughness above 0.
- : The Germ token enters the battlefield as a 0/0 creature and the Equipment becomes attached to it before state-based actions would cause the token to die. Abilities that trigger as the token enters the battlefield see that a 0/0 creature entered the battlefield.
- : If the Germ token is destroyed, the Equipment remains on the battlefield as with any other Equipment.