It gives a negligible stat change and rewards you with some cards in the unfortunate situation where your creature dies
Lightning Greaves, too, can never be reprinted enough and will protect your expensive horrors while allowing you to swing with them immediately
That's clearly White, as shown on Steelshaper's Gift, Stoneforge Mystic, Open the Armory, and so much more -- in fact, there's not a single Green card out there before C17 that benefited from having Equipment, only destroying them (Acid Web Spider)
Voltaic Construct Anything that untaps without tapping itself is abusable
Thats such a negligible downside that its almost laughable, and the fact that this can target any nonland permanents means that it can be used in so many situations that youd be foolish not to have it in your deck
A deckbuilding checklist is a general list of minimum requirements your average good deck should have, regardless of the individual deck's goals or themes