Sword of Light and Shadow
- Mana cost
- {3}
- Type
- Artifact — Equipment
- Set
- Arena Anthology 1 #14 (mythic)
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}
Sword of Light and Shadow has 13 printings, first in Darksteel (2004). EDHREC ranks it #2,267 among Commander cards. It appears most in Ezio Auditore da Firenze decks (3,670 on EDHREC). 1 public deck on TCG runs it. It has 2 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Public decks that run Sword of Light and Shadow
- Klingon Fury - Star Trek Commander, led by Worf, Defiant Commander
Commanders that run Sword of Light and Shadow most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Ezio Auditore da Firenze: 3,670 decks
- Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER: 2,876 decks
- Cloud, Midgar Mercenary: 2,577 decks
- Syr Gwyn, Hero of Ashvale: 2,310 decks
- Captain America, First Avenger: 1,981 decks
- Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima: 1,730 decks
- Arna Kennerüd, Skycaptain: 1,061 decks
- Alexios, Deimos of Kosmos: 865 decks
Often played with Sword of Light and Shadow
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : 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.
- : 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.