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.
This printing is one of 2 catalogued treatments from TD2 — the lineup includes Nonfoil alongside the standard finish. Across our catalog the Rarix library tracks every variant in the same family so collectors can compare price, scarcity and demand inside a single lineage.
Card #68 of *Duel Decks: Mirrodin Pure vs. New Phyrexia*, the set that shipped alongside the May 2011 Duel Decks: Mirrodin Pure vs. New Phyrexia release.
Card type: Artifact — Equipment, printed at uncommon. Uncommons fill the middle-tier slots in a standard booster configuration. Mana cost: {2} (2 converted). Keyword abilities: Equip and Living weapon.
Legal across the major constructed formats — Modern, Legacy, Vintage, and Commander — plus Standard rotation play.
EDHrec ranks this card #16,640 in Commander, putting it in the fringe-play tier of the format's playable pool.
Illustrated by Eric Deschamps. Rarix catalogs 890 other cards credited to this artist.
Magic: The Gathering · ™ & © Wizards of the Coast · Illus. Eric Deschamps
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If the Germ token is destroyed, the Equipment remains on the battlefield as with any other Equipment.
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.
