Dancing Sword

Most Equipment punishes you for losing the creature underneath it: you paid the equip cost, the body dies, and you re-pay to move the buff onto the next threat. This one turns that removal into a wash. When the creature it was strapped to dies, the sword picks itself up and swings, becoming a 2/1 flier with ward that carries some of the pressure the dead creature was applying. The design idea is a hedge against the two-for-one that trades a removal spell for both a creature and an Aura-style investment: kill the body, and the attacker you were answering just partially replaces itself in a form spot removal has to deal with all over again. Note the seam in the wording, though: once the sword animates, it stops being an Equipment entirely, so the +2/+1 goes away and you cannot re-equip it to a fresh creature. It commits to being a creature or stays a buff; it does not get to be both after the transformation. The evasion and ward point at a design built to close a game rather than grind one, a small flying body that dodges ground blockers and taxes the removal that would otherwise clean it up cheaply. It is the rare Equipment that would rather you lose the fight over the creature holding it.