Riftbound keyword
Equip
Equip is a Riftbound keyword on Equipment gear: pay the Equip cost to attach the gear to a unit you control, giving that unit its Might bonus and effect text.
51 cardsFirst seen in SpiritforgedCore Rules 818
Official text
On the cards
Equip 
Rune of this card's domain (Rune of this card's domain: Attach this to a unit you control.)
Equip 
1 EnergyRune of this card's domain (1 EnergyRune of this card's domain: Attach this to a unit you control.)
Equip — Spend 1 XP (Pay the cost: Attach this to a unit you control.)
Core Rules
- 818.1
- Equip is an Activated Ability keyword.
- 818.1.a
- Equip is present on Gear with the tag Equipment.
- 818.1.b
- Equip has a cost to activate and Attaches the card with Equip to a chosen Unit when the cost is paid.
- 818.1.b.1
- Equip’s choice is a Target.
- 818.1.c.2
- Equip is functionally short for “[Cost]: Attach this gear to a unit you control.”
- 818.1.c.3
- Equip costs may include both resource costs and non-resource costs.
- 135.4
- A card’s printed Rules Text is Inactive while that card is Attached to another card.
- 135.4.b
- Any granted or appended Rules Text on a card is still Active even if that card is Attached to another card.
Riftbound Core Rules, updated October 9, 2026
How Equip works
How does Equip work?
Pay the Equip cost printed next to the keyword and choose a unit you control. The Equipment attaches to that unit, which gets the Equipment's Might bonus and the abilities in its effect text.
Core Rules 818.1.b, 818.1.c.2, 718.3, 718.4Riftbound Core Rules: Spiritforged Patch Notes
When can I use Equip?
Equip is an activated ability of a gear, so you use it during your own Main Phase, when nothing is on the chain and no showdown is going on. Quick-Draw Equipment can be played and attached as a Reaction, but that doesn't change when their Equip ability works.
Core Rules 818.1, 151.2Riftbound Core Rules: Spiritforged Patch Notes
Can I equip a unit at a battlefield?
Yes. Equip can choose any unit you control, wherever it is. The Equipment goes to the unit's location as it attaches, and that doesn't count as a move.
Core Rules 818.1.c.2, 435.4, 435.4.a
Can I use Equip to move an Equipment to another unit?
No. While an Equipment is attached, its printed rules text is inactive, Equip included, so you can't use it. A unit with Weaponmaster can still take the Equipment as that unit is played.
Core Rules 135.4, 721.2, 725.3Riftbound Core Rules: Spiritforged Patch Notes
What happens to the Equipment when the unit dies?
You keep it. When a unit leaves the board, its Equipment detaches and stays behind. If that happens at a battlefield, the Equipment is recalled to your base in the next cleanup, and you can equip it to another unit.
Core Rules 719.5, 436.4.a, 436.4.bRiftbound Core Rules: Spiritforged Patch Notes
Can a unit carry more than one Equipment?
Yes. The unit gets the Might bonus and the effect text of every Equipment attached to it.
Core Rules 435.1.b.1, 435.1.c, 435.1.d
Does an attached Equipment's own text still work?
Its printed rules text doesn't, so Spinning Axe's own Temporary can't kill it while it's attached. Text that another card gives it still works: an attached Equipment given Temporary by Turn to Dust is killed in its controller's next Beginning Phase.
Core Rules 135.4, 135.4.bUnleashed Rules FAQ and Clarifications
Can spells that affect gear hit an attached Equipment?
Yes. An attached Equipment is still a gear on the board, with all its types and tags, so spells and abilities can still choose it.
Core Rules 718.5, 718.5.a, 718.5.b
Example: Doran's Blade on Lucian
You have Doran's Blade (+2 Might) in your base and Lucian, Merciless, a 3 Might unit, at a battlefield. In your Main Phase you pay the Blade's Equip cost of one Body power and choose Lucian. The Blade attaches and joins him at the battlefield, making him 5 Might. If Lucian later dies there, the Blade detaches, is recalled to your base in the next cleanup, and can be equipped to another unit.
From Riftbound Core RulesRiftbound Core Rules: Spiritforged Patch Notes
Official rulings
Riot's own words, from its rules articles.
You simply pay the Equip cost listed next to the ability, choose a unit you control, and attach the Equipment to that unit.
Notably, because of the way rules text becomes inactive when you attach these cards to a unit, you can’t use an Equip ability if it’s already attached to something. On the bright side, if the unit carrying it is killed or otherwise leaves the board, you keep the gear! Equip it to the next contender and continue the fight.
What costs does Ezreal, Prodigy reduce? Does he reduce Repeat costs? Accelerate costs? Equip costs?
Ezreal can’t reduce Equip costs. That’s an activation cost for an ability, so it’s neither optional nor additional.
If I play Turn to Dust on an attached Equipment, will the Equipment die in the Beginning Phase?
Yes. The granted Temporary keyword will be active. It will trigger and kill the equipment in its controller’s next Beginning Phase. … Attached Equipment only have their printed rules text made inactive per rules 718.2. and 135.4. This means that any granted rules text will still be active; granted Temporary will trigger and kill attached Equipment and granted Deflect will add
Any Rune to the cost of enemy spells and abilities that target them.What happens when I choose an attached Equipment with Orianna, Lady of Clockwork?
It detaches from the object it is attached to when it becomes a unit. … In this rules update we’ve clarified that units cannot be attached to other game objects. If a unit were to be attached to a game object, it would need to stop being a unit first. If a non-unit game object becomes a unit, it will detach from anything it is attached to as it becomes a unit.
Core Rules: Radiance Patch Notes (Effective October 16, 2026)
Every Equip card (51)
kw:equipCards with Equip · 41
Weaponmaster units, which equip as they're played · 10
