Oathkeeper, Takeno's Daisho

The reanimation rider is the part that gives this Equipment its identity: a Samurai that dies wearing the daisho returns to the battlefield under your control, no mana paid and no recursion spell needed. The catch is in the trigger's shape. Because the return fires off a death trigger that uses the stack, the creature does pass through the graveyard, and an opponent holding graveyard hate has a window to exile the card in response before the ability resolves. So the recursion is fast and free, but it is not airtight; the body sits in the yard, however briefly, where it can be answered. The second clause wires in a separate punishment: if the sword itself ever lands in the graveyard, the creature it was strapped to gets exiled, so the loop only holds as long as the artifact survives, and a single piece of artifact removal converts the engine into a sacrifice button pointed back at you. The whole design lives in that contradiction: the equipment protects its bearer only while it lives, and condemns the bearer the moment it dies, all sitting on top of a flat +3/+1 that turns a small Samurai into a real clock. It belongs to the tribal Samurai-matters line, the cluster of cards that asked players to commit to one creature type and rewarded loyalty with resilience. Named for a specific warlord, the daisho is an heirloom that only makes sense in the hands it was forged for.