Champion Unit
Akshan
Mischievous
Energy
Rules
Weaponmaster
You may pay as an additional cost to play me.
When you play me, if you paid the additional cost, move an enemy gear to your base. You control it until I leave the board. If it's an Equipment, attach it to me.
Card information
- Set
- Spiritforged SFD
- Card number
- SFD-109/221
- Rarity
- Rare
- Type
- Champion Unit
- Champion tag
- Akshan
- Tags
- Akshan, Shurima, Sentinel
- Illustrator
- Six More Vodka
Names in other languages
Keywords explained
WeaponmasterCR 821Triggered Ability
Weaponmaster is functionally short for: “When you play me, you may choose a Card you control with the Equipment tag. Necessary portions of its Rules Text are no longer Inactive if they are currently Inactive. Pay the cost of its Equip ability, reduced by , to attach it to this unit.” See rule
Functional text from the Core Rules
Legality
Simulator support
Fully scripted
Every printed ability works in the simulator.
Rulings & errata
›What happens when my opponent’s Akshan, Mischievous steals my equipped Shady Spectacles? What happens if they want to copy Aphelios?
If it was attached to a unit, the equipped unit loses its copy effect. Akshan will then become a copy of a friendly unit of his controller’s choice. If he becomes a copy of Aphelios, his ability will not trigger.
This question deserves a bit more depth. As of the Vendetta rules update, we have clarified how effects like Shady Spectacles and Svellsongur work; they are replacement effects that replace the event of the equipment being attached to a unit with that event plus whatever their effect specifies.
In the case of Svellsongur, the resulting series of events will be:
Attach → Copy the equipped unit’s text to Svellsongur’s effect text for as long as Svellsongur is attached
For Shady Spectacles, the resulting series of events will be:
Attach → Choose a friendly unit and make the equipped unit a copy of that unit for as long as Shady Spectacles is attached
These events are not simultaneous. The attach event executes first, and then whatever event is instructed by the replacement effect is executed. Thus, the answer in the Spiritforged FAQ is no longer true: if you attach Svellsongur to Aphelios, he will not trigger twice. Svellsongur doesn’t have the copied effect text when the attach event executes.
Similarly here, if Akshan nabs Shady Spectacles from an opponent, it will attach and then make him a copy. If his controller chooses to make him a copy of Aphelios, it’s too late by that point for his new triggered ability to see the attachment event; it’s already been completed.
Relevant Rules: 369.1., 370.1.b.1., 370.1.a.2.
Source: Riftbound: Vendetta Rules FAQ and Clarifications (newest FAQ found)