Blade of Balance
Sword of Light and Shadow is a compact engine piece that rewards attacking while protecting your key creature. The card reads like a toolkit for midrange and control pilots: a three mana artifact equipment that grants the equipped creature plus two plus two and protection from white and from black. Equip for two makes it a turn two upgrade in aggressive shells and a cheap recur trigger for slower strategies.
In practice Sword of Light and Shadow turns a reliable attacker into a recurring threat. Whenever the equipped creature deals combat damage to a player you gain three life and can return a creature card from your graveyard to your hand. That interaction produces incremental value and stabilizes races against burn or aggro while enabling late game redundancy. Use it on a creature with evasion or on a resilient body to maximize triggers and keep your key threats returning from the graveyard.
Card Details:
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Mana Cost – {3}
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Card Type – Artifact — Equipment
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Subtypes – Equipment
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Card Text / Rules Text (Printed) – 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}.
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Power / Toughness – N A
