The effect itself doesnt have to target the equipped creature either, which means you could stick it on whatever you want and make something else 1/1 and unblockable, negating the need to re-equipped if the other creature gets removed
While Melmetal's humble price tag doesn't earn it a spot among the best cards from its era, most debuting Pokemon start slowly, then rise in value as they receive better cards or their demand increases
Meld Combines two separate cards into a completely different permanent, no longer treated as the sum of its components
But sales figures on the website Price Charting suggest that, if the card is in good nick, even the most common first edition Pokmon cards, a Weedle or Caterpie, can go for a couple of hundred dollars
The expected value of play points per chest is 1.39 tickets which is 58% of the total chest value
If we want to be adventurous, we could even look at Geralfs Messenger as an additional win condition, but one that would only work with Solemnity