Squire's Lightblade

Flash on an Equipment is the whole trick, and it reframes what a combat trick can leave behind. A traditional pump spell is spent the moment it resolves: cast Giant Growth, win the fight, and there is nothing on the board afterward. This one plays the same ambush at instant speed, targeting one of your creatures and handing it first strike for the turn, then stays attached as a small permanent buff once combat is over. That is the two-in-one: hold up the mana, wait until a block is declared or an attack is committed, flash it in to steal a fight (the attacker trades down before it ever connects), and keep the +1/+0 stapled on for every combat after. The instant-speed entry does most of the strategic work, letting you bluff open mana and commit only once the board math is locked. The equip cost of is where the design draws its line: the flash entry is nearly free at a single white, but moving the Equipment to a new body later is deliberately steep, so the card wants to spend its surprise the turn it lands rather than shuffle between creatures. It folds the surprise trick and the persistent buff into one card, and it earns its place precisely by refusing to be only one of them.