Equip is usually written as equip X:, and a player can pay the cost (X) any time they could cast a sorcery to attach the equipment to target creature they control
Have fun at the prerelease, and start paying attention to how many card types are in your graveyard
And to make sure our commander both doesn't die and can slip past blockers we're running auras like Unquestioned Authority, Shield of Duty and Reason, Robe of Stars, and Timely Ward
This card came about because we were riffing on different milling effects
If there's a cost associated with having it block the creature, its controller isn't forced to pay that cost, so it doesn't have to block in that case either
There are only 1,000 of these up for grabs, so these will definitely be hot-ticket items