Engage in friendly trades with your peers to further widen your collection
This archetype attempts to get around that by having most of your equipment cards enter play already attached to a 1/1 token, meaning you can play many more of them without losing your aggressive curve, and you dont need to worry about paying to equip them until after that first bearer dies and you need to stick them on something else
If your opponent has an exerted Character, you may exert one of your characters to challenge them
I dont want to do that
This is optional, which means if you have some way of recurring your action cards from your discard, which emerald is very good at doing, then you dont have to take the benefit
Cards like The Queen, Commanding Presence and Gaston, Intellectual Powerhouse are about as tricky as things get, but they simply do what they say on the card and get players used to the powerful (at least in my eyes) shift mechanic, which is a cost reduction method