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Chishiro, the Shattered Blade

Legendary Creature — Snake Samurai2 generic manaRed manaGreen mana

Two engines wired to a shared board state, which is what makes this a build-around rather than a value dork. The first clause fires on entry: every Aura or Equipment that hits the battlefield mints a 2/2 menace body, so the token payout scales with how many auras and equipment you can churn through play (a flicker or recursion loop that re-casts a piece counts; simply moving an existing Equipment to a new bearer does not, since nothing enters). The second clause then treats that same board as a distribution network, dropping a counter on every modified creature at your end step. The connection between the two is the design: the Spirits arrive unmodified and therefore ineligible, but the moment you attach anything to one it enters the growth cycle, and the counter it collects keeps it qualifying every turn thereafter. That closes the loop between the abilities, entries feeding bodies, attachments feeding counters, counters sustaining eligibility once the attachment moves on. Voltron builds usually stake everything on a single fragile threat; this reframes the archetype as a go-wide swarm where auras and equipment are the reward for width rather than the risk of one target. The red-green split serves it: red brings the aggressive token bodies with menace to push them through, green brings the counter-matters payoffs and the equipment-recursion loops that keep new pieces entering.

Chishiro, the Shattered Blade (nec)
NEC · #1mythic
Pricing
Normal: $0.96
Foil: $0.75
Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever an Aura or Equipment you control enters, create a 2/2 red Spirit creature token with menace. At the beginning of your end step, put a +1/+1 counter on each modified creature you control. (Equipment, Auras you control, and counters are modifications.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
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