Sword of Light and Shadow

Sword of Light and Shadow

Artifact — Equipment

Mana cost: {3}

How we read this card

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from white and from black.

static — gives +2/+2

static — grants a keyword

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you gain 3 life and you may return up to one target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

triggered — gains you 3 life

triggered — brings a card back

Equip {2}

Causes: gain life, a creature leaves a graveyard.

Cares about: a creature deals combat damage, a creature in a graveyard.

Works well with

a nontoken Equipment enters the battlefield — 649 cards in the game can cause this (Sword of Light and Shadow is one).

  1. Firion, Wild Rose Warrior — When Sword of Light and Shadow enters, Firion, Wild Rose Warrior makes a token

an Equipment enters the battlefield — 658 cards in the game can cause this (Sword of Light and Shadow is one).

When Sword of Light and Shadow enters:

  1. Puresteel Paladin — draws you 1 card
  2. Sokka and Suki — makes a token
  3. Barret, Avalanche Leader — makes a token
  4. The Mighty Thor, Jane Foster — draws you 1 card
  5. Giott, King of the Dwarves — draws and discards
  6. Hammer of Nazahn — triggers
  7. Sigarda's Aid — triggers

6 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a creature leaves a graveyard — 1,302 cards in the game can cause this (Sword of Light and Shadow is one).

When a creature leaves a graveyard thanks to Sword of Light and Shadow:

  1. Grim Reaper's Scythe — makes a token
  2. Syr Konrad, the Grim — deals 1 damage
  3. Cyan, Vengeful Samurai — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  4. Along the Crooked Way — puts a counter on a Goblin or Army
  5. Skeleton Crew — makes a token
  6. Desecrated Tomb — makes a token
  7. Chalk Outline — makes a token
  8. Insidious Roots — makes a token
  9. Undead Hand Ninja — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  10. Rot Farm Mortipede — gets +1/+0

3 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

life is gained — 2,076 cards in the game can cause this (Sword of Light and Shadow is one).

When Sword of Light and Shadow gains life:

  1. Field-Tested Frying Pan — gets +X/+X, where X is the amount of life you gained
  2. Dina, Soul Steeper — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  3. Marina Vendrell's Grimoire — draws you that many cards
  4. South Wind Avatar — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  5. Rodolf Duskbringer — grants indestructible
  6. Fiendish Panda — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  7. Veinwitch Coven — brings a card back
  8. Cleric Class — puts a counter on a creature
  9. Lich's Mastery — draws you that many cards
  10. Wall of Limbs — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself

84 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

anything leaves a graveyard — 2,503 cards in the game can cause this (Sword of Light and Shadow is one).

When a creature leaves a graveyard thanks to Sword of Light and Shadow:

  1. Blastoneuron — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  2. Defiled Crypt // Cadaver Lab — makes a token
  3. Teval, the Balanced Scale — makes a token
  4. Hologram Stalker — makes a token
  5. Tormod, the Desecrator — makes a token
  6. Quintorius, Field Historian — makes a token
  7. Garrison Excavator — makes a token
  8. Amzu, Swarm's Hunger — makes a token
  9. Kirol, History Buff // Pack a Punch — becomes prepared
  10. Teval's Judgment — triggers

13 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

put a creature into a graveyard — 2,769 cards in the game can cause this.

  1. Blasting Station — Blasting Station puts cards into the graveyard that Sword of Light and Shadow can bring back
  2. Saw — Saw puts cards into the graveyard that Sword of Light and Shadow can bring back
  3. Hot Soup — Hot Soup puts cards into the graveyard that Sword of Light and Shadow can bring back
  4. Dead-Iron Sledge — Dead-Iron Sledge puts cards into the graveyard that Sword of Light and Shadow can bring back
  5. Relic Vial — Relic Vial puts cards into the graveyard that Sword of Light and Shadow can bring back
  6. Acidic Dagger — Acidic Dagger puts cards into the graveyard that Sword of Light and Shadow can bring back
  7. Basalt Golem — Basalt Golem puts cards into the graveyard that Sword of Light and Shadow can bring back
  8. Spawning Pit — Spawning Pit puts cards into the graveyard that Sword of Light and Shadow can bring back
  9. Pyre of Heroes — Pyre of Heroes puts cards into the graveyard that Sword of Light and Shadow can bring back
  10. Jinxed Ring — Jinxed Ring puts cards into the graveyard that Sword of Light and Shadow can bring back

2,759 other cards cause it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

an artifact is cast — 3,683 cards in the game can cause this (Sword of Light and Shadow is one).

When Sword of Light and Shadow is cast:

  1. Mendicant Core, Guidelight — copies a spell
  2. Sai, Master Thopterist — makes a token
  3. Ravenous Robots — makes a token
  4. Pinnacle Emissary — makes a token
  5. Mirrodin Besieged — makes a token
  6. Poetic Ingenuity — makes a token
  7. Digsite Engineer — makes a token
  8. Myrsmith — makes a token
  9. Riddlesmith — draws you 1 card
  10. Dr. Madison Li — puts a counter on a permanent you control

271 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a nontoken artifact enters the battlefield — 3,768 cards in the game can cause this (Sword of Light and Shadow is one).

When Sword of Light and Shadow enters:

  1. Ultron, Artificial Malevolence — makes a token
  2. The Prydwen, Steel Flagship — makes a token
  3. Conquest Mission — puts a quest counter on itself
  4. Surge Conductor — proliferates
  5. Replication Specialist — makes a token
  6. Weapons Manufacturing — makes a token
  7. Mirrorworks — makes a token

an artifact it grants abilities to — 4,531 cards in the game can cause this.

  1. Darksteel Forge — Darksteel Forge gives Sword of Light and Shadow indestructible

4,530 other cards cause it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

an artifact it applies untap to — 4,531 cards in the game can cause this.

  1. Unwinding Clock — Unwinding Clock gives Sword of Light and Shadow an extra untap

4,530 other cards cause it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

an artifact enters the battlefield — 4,643 cards in the game can cause this (Sword of Light and Shadow is one).

When Sword of Light and Shadow enters:

  1. Transplant Theorist — draws you 1 card
  2. Elvish Archivist — puts 2 +1/+1 counters on itself
  3. Golbez, Crystal Collector — surveils
  4. Sludge Strider — makes a player lose 1 life
  5. Underhanded Designs — makes each opponent lose 1 life

60 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.