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Forebear's Blade

Artifact — Equipment3 generic mana

Most Equipment punishes you for losing the body it sat on: the buffed creature dies, the sword falls to the dirt, and you pay the equip cost again to put it back to work. This one refuses to let go. When the equipped creature dies, the blade reattaches itself to another creature you control at no cost, its death trigger targeting the next carrier the moment the old one hits the graveyard. That single line shifts the strategic axis from "protect the carrier" to "feed the blade," which makes it a natural fit for decks built on expendable bodies: token swarms, sacrifice engines, anything that expects its creatures to trade in combat and keep coming. The +3/+0 with vigilance and trample is a serviceable aggressive package, but the rate is not the reason the card exists. The reason is the persistence: an opponent can kill your attacker, but the threat does not stay dead, it simply migrates, and they are left needing an answer for the Equipment itself rather than the creature holding it. Equipment that survives the death of its wielder and chooses where to land next is a small but pointed design idea, turning a permanent that normally taxes recovery into one that rewards attrition.

Forebear's Blade (pdom)
PDOM · #214srare
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Equipped creature gets +3/+0 and has vigilance and trample. Whenever equipped creature dies, attach this Equipment to target creature you control. Equip 3 generic mana
Legalities

Format Status

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