­Clockwork Avian + Leader's Blessing

Clockwork flyer for 5. And... Blessing

Guess I'm making a card for Alpha edition. And that has some form of + that costs mana.

So sure, blessing of clocks. With wildly wonky alpha-style wording that is nonetheless entirely obvious how it's meant to work.

Definitely not obvious how it's meant to work because the instructions are all scrambled up. And I know what a mono artifact is (although it took like 3 reads to notice the type line), but you know it never actually says to tap the artifact. There's a reason they changed the template

Yeah; ok. Modern wording might be something like:

Equip : Put 4 +1/+1 counters on equipped creature while ~ is equipped. Remove one whenever it attacks, blocks, or taps.

Basically, Seasinger style 'lasts until I move it to something new' and the effect is 'you have the clockwork template, and some counters to power it'.

Or even,

"You may choose not to untap ~ during your untap step.

­, : Put four +1/+1 counters on target creature. For as long as ~ remains tapped, that creature is a Clockwork artifact creature in addition to its other types and has "Whenever this creature attacks or blocks, remove a +1/+1 counter from it. When ~ becomes untapped, remove all +1/+1 counters from that creature."

Even your equipment doesn't work since you can't say "put counters on until..."