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Heirloom Blade

Artifact — Equipment3 generic mana

Equipment that pays you back for losing the creature it made bigger: the +3/+1 turns any body into a threat worth answering, and when the answer comes, the death trigger digs to the next creature that shares a type. That death clause is what makes this a tribal engine rather than a stat stick. It reads generously (dig as deep as you need until you hit a matching type) but the real catch is that you have to hit at all: in a whiff-heavy deck the trigger can dig past your whole library and find nothing, netting you no card. The design only sings when your creatures share a dense, well-supported type, so that the "shares a creature type" search lands early and the buried cards are ones you didn't need. It rewards concentration, not breadth. The equip cost of 1 generic mana keeps it moving between bodies, which matters because the trigger only fires on death, not on unequip: you want the Blade strapped to whatever is most likely to trade or be removed, converting each loss into a fresh draw. In practice it functions less like a piece of gear and more like a recursive tribal tutor stapled to a growth effect, filling the slot where a mono-typed deck wants insurance against removal without diluting its curve with card advantage spells that don't also affect the board.

Heirloom Blade (c20)
C20 · #242uncommon
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Equipped creature gets +3/+1. Whenever equipped creature dies, you may reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a creature card that shares a creature type with it. Put that card into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. Equip 1 generic mana
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
Legal
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