Novel Nunchaku

two generic mana one green mana 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 three generic mana (: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

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Novel Nunchaku rulings

2026-01-27
You don't choose a target creature an opponent controls for Novel Nunchaku's first ability at the time it triggers. Rather, a second "reflexive" ability triggers when Novel Nunchaku is attached to the target creature you control this way. You choose a target for that ability as it goes on the stack. Each player may respond to this triggered ability as normal.

Novel Nunchaku keyword rules

Fight Rule 701.12

A spell or ability may instruct a creature to fight another creature or it may instruct two creatures to fight each other. Each of those creatures deals damage equal to its power to the other creature.

If one or both creatures instructed to fight are no longer on the battlefield or are no longer creatures, neither of them fights or deals damage. If one or both creatures are illegal targets for a resolving spell or ability that instructs them to fight, neither of them fights or deals damage.

If a creature fights itself, it deals damage to itself equal to twice its power.

The damage dealt when a creature fights isn’t combat damage.

Equip Rule 702.6

Equip is an activated ability of Equipment cards. “Equip [cost]” means “[Cost]: Attach this permanent to target creature you control. Activate only as a sorcery.”

For more information about Equipment, see rule , “Artifacts.”

Equip abilities may further restrict what creatures may be chosen as legal targets. Such restrictions usually appear in the form “Equip [quality]” or “Equip [quality] creature.” These equip abilities may legally target only a creature that’s controlled by the player activating the ability and that has the chosen quality. Additional restrictions for an equip ability don’t restrict what the Equipment may be attached to.

If a permanent has multiple equip abilities, any of its equip abilities may be activated.

“Equip planeswalker” is a variant of the equip ability. “Equip planeswalker [cost]” means “[Cost]: Attach this permanent to target planeswalker you control as though that planeswalker were a creature. Activate only as a sorcery.”