Its good that the equipment already works, whether its equipped or not
Cytoplast Manipulator, a great foil to +1/+1 counter decks, is down to $0.24 from its old price of $5.60
This set does have a lot of dragons, and that may keep him in check a little bit, but he still seems quite good to me
Of course, a dedicated Etrata deck will usually have even better ways to cheat this downside: phasing or flickering her out of play before the shuffle, attacking with copies of the original or copying the trigger itself, or even destroying the target with some other assassin in response to fizzle the shuffle
Its only real weakness is a vulnerability to cards like Fanatical Firebrand due to 1 toughness
A combat phase in a typical turn of MTG looks like this: Beginning of combat Declare attackers Declare blockers Assign combat damage End of combat Creatures with double strike or first strike (mentioned later in this article) effectively create two assign combat damage steps