Spring-Loaded Sawblades (The Lost Caverns of Ixalan) Medium Play Foil

Spring Into Combat

Spring-Loaded Sawblades is a compact surprise in white artifact form. The card name delivers both function and flavor. With flash you can hold priority and drop this artifact at the end of an opponent turn to remove a tapped blocker or a threatening creature. The immediate five points of damage to a tapped creature an opponent controls makes it a clean answer in tempo decks and fits naturally into artifact synergies that want bodies or triggers on entry.

The card also introduces a craftable transformation ability that rewards board planning. Pay the craft cost and sacrifice an artifact or bring one back from the graveyard to turn this into a 5 5 threat. That trade off between spot removal and a permanent attacker positions Spring-Loaded Sawblades as a versatile play across limited and constructed formats, with a small trace of Lost Caverns lore that ties its mechanism to the cavernous traps beneath Ixalan ruins.

Card Details:

• Mana Cost {1}{W}
• Card Type Artifact
• Subtypes —
• Card Text / Rules Text (Printed) Flash When Spring-Loaded Sawblades enters the battlefield, it deals 5 damage to target tapped creature an opponent controls. Craft with artifact {3}{W}, Exile this artifact, Exile another artifact you control or an artifact card from your graveyard: Return this card transformed under its owner's control. Craft only as a sorcery.
• Power / Toughness 5/5