Novel Nunchaku
Artifact — Equipment
When this Equipment enters, attach it to target creature you control. When you do, equipped creature fights up to one target creature an opponent controls. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)
Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has trample.
Equip 
(: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Price
- $0.16
- EDHREC rank
- #19555
Novel Nunchaku gives a creature +1/+2 and first strike for one mana to equip, which is a reasonable stat bump at a low activation cost. The problem is that the two-mana equip cost means you're rarely moving it, so it lives on whatever creature you suited up first and hopes that creature stays alive.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Novel Nunchaku is legal across every major constructed format but doesn't see meaningful play in any of them — Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer all have equipment that does more for comparable or cheaper costs. In Standard it's a playable curve filler in limited but not a constructed staple. Commander is its most natural home, specifically in go-wide or Voltron lists that want cheap ways to push a single creature through combat, though even there the competition from equipment with stronger upsides is stiff.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.16 bulk tier
At $0.16, Novel Nunchaku is deep bulk — you're paying almost nothing for what is essentially a throw-in. Don't expect that price to move; cards at this tier either spike because of a broken interaction or sit flat indefinitely, and nothing about this card suggests the former.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.