Weapons ManufacturingHow it works & interactions with other cards

Strategic Production

The enchantment features a triggered ability that watches for nontoken artifacts entering the battlefield under your control. Every time a physical artifact card lands on your side, you receive a Munitions token. These tokens serve a dual purpose: they count as artifacts for your synergies and act as delayed damage spells that trigger upon leaving the battlefield for any reason.

Step-by-Step Resolution

First, a nontoken artifact enters the battlefield under your control, putting the Weapons Manufacturing trigger on the stack. Once that trigger resolves, you create a Munitions token. If that token later leaves the battlefield—whether it is sacrificed, destroyed, or bounced to your hand—its own triggered ability goes on the stack. You then choose a target, and upon resolution, that target is dealt 2 damage.

Common Pitfalls

Remember that Weapons Manufacturing only triggers on nontoken artifacts; creating a Munitions token will not trigger the enchantment again to create another one. Additionally, the 'leaves the battlefield' trigger on the Munitions token functions regardless of where the token goes. Even if it is exiled or returned to your hand (where it subsequently ceases to exist), the damage trigger will still fire and resolve.

Tactical Timing

Because Munitions trigger when leaving the battlefield, they are excellent defense against board wipes. You can also proactively use sacrifice outlets to turn these tokens into targeted removal or direct damage to an opponent. This makes the card particularly potent in aggressive decks that need to maintain momentum through removal.

Interaction examples

Mass Production Damage

Weapons ManufacturingImpact Tremors

With both enchantments on the battlefield, playing a nontoken artifact creature triggers both. Weapons Manufacturing creates a Munitions token, which then triggers Impact Tremors a second time, dealing a total of 2 damage to each opponent just from permanents entering.

Recursive Explosions

Weapons ManufacturingUnderworld Breach

If you have Underworld Breach on the battlefield, you can cast a cheap artifact card from your graveyard using its mana cost and exiling three cards. This triggers Weapons Manufacturing to create a Munitions token. If you then sacrifice that artifact and its Munitions token to pay for other costs, you deal 2 damage and set up the graveyard to repeat the process.

Direct Munitions Fire

Weapons ManufacturingMunitions

When you play a simple artifact like a Mox or a mana rock, Weapons Manufacturing generates a Munitions token. If an opponent uses a spell to destroy that token, its ability triggers immediately, allowing you to deal 2 damage to a creature they control or directly to the opponent as a parting gift.