That in turn gives other decks worse matchups into the rest of the meta
The formats werent as fast in those days as they are today, so you could easily have a combo that needs more than two cards and just for value, not for the win either
Counterfeits are designed to deceive
But even so, doubling counters on permanents is potentially huge, like say Planeswalkers, which work in a really funky way, and similarly this cuts your opponents counters to half, rounded down, which means in the case of 1 counter, that's 0 counters, which is in fact quite huge
Equip only as a sorcery.) Artifact - Equipment Keyword (CTRL to add secondary) Land Land (CTRL to add secondary) Mana Rock Mana Rock (CTRL to add secondary) Protection Swiftfoot Boots Equipped creature has hexproof and haste