Sword of Once and Future
- Mana cost
- {3}
- Type
- Artifact — Equipment
- Set
- March of the Machine Promos #265p (mythic)
- Price
- $4.90 USD
Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from blue and from black.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, surveil 2. Then you may cast an instant or sorcery spell with mana value 2 or less from your graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.
Equip {2}
Sword of Once and Future has 4 printings, first in March of the Machine (2023). EDHREC ranks it #4,888 among Commander cards. It appears most in Mirko, Obsessive Theorist decks (3,256 on EDHREC). It has 5 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Sword of Once and Future most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Mirko, Obsessive Theorist: 3,256 decks
- Feather, the Redeemed: 856 decks
- Denzilore Fatehold: 808 decks
- Balan, Wandering Knight: 444 decks
- Tetsuo, Imperial Champion: 409 decks
- Neerdiv, Devious Diver: 357 decks
- Ratonhnhaké꞉ton: 294 decks
- Legolas, Master Archer: 254 decks
Often played with Sword of Once and Future
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : You choose whether or not to cast the instant or sorcery card as the triggered ability resolves. If you do, you do so as part of the resolution of that ability. You can't wait to cast it later in the turn. Timing restrictions based on the card's type are ignored.
- : If you cast a card "without paying its mana cost," you can't pay any alternative costs. You can, however, pay additional costs. If the card has any mandatory additional costs, those must be paid to cast the card.
- : If the card has {X} in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost.
- : The card you cast may be one you just put into the graveyard with surveil or one already in the graveyard.
- : When you surveil, you may put all the cards you look at back on top of your library, you may put all of those cards into your graveyard, or you may put some of those cards on top and the rest of them into your graveyard.