Card
Sword of Light and Shadow
Mana cost {3}
Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from white and from black. 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. Equip {2}
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 2 known combos. 2 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Rare · DST · #149
- Cheapest printing
- €6.12
- EDHREC salt
- 0.46
- Keywords
- Equip
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B2 Core — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B3 Upgraded — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- No Game Changer, mass land denial, extra turn, tutor or two-card combo
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
2 known combos.
- Time Sieve + Myr Battlesphere + Sword of Light and Shadow
Produces: Infinite turns, Lock
View on Commander Spellbook - Waves of Aggression + Savage Ventmaw + Sword of Light and Shadow + Dryad Arbor
Produces: Infinite combat damage, Infinite combat phases, Infinite green mana
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2020-08-07 · Wizards of the Coast
If you choose a target creature card in your graveyard and that card is an illegal target by the time the triggered ability tries to resolve, the ability won't resolve. You won't gain 3 life. If you don't choose a target at all, you just gain 3 life. - 2020-08-07 · Wizards of the Coast
The triggered ability can target a creature card that was put into your graveyard as a result of state-based actions immediately after the combat damage that caused the ability to trigger.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast