However, its powerful tail is the primary weapon of choice to smash its enemies or create the spacing Nidoking needs to execute one of its devastating charges
Look at he text, I bolded and enlarged the keyword: Equipped creature has ", : This creature deals 1 damage to target creature or player" and "Whenever a creature is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, untap this creature." While the staff does give both abilitys they are actually independent of each other, evidenced by the quotation marks surronding both phrases, if they relyed on each other they would be in quotion marks together
I think Gavin hits it on the nail right here
But the centerpiece of Paradox's deck is Malefic Truth Dragon
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