Sword of Vengeance

The Sword cycle is built around a two-keyword grant plus a color-pair protection clause, which makes the protection the whole point: Sword of Fire and Ice and Sword of Feast and Famine each turn an unblocked hit into card advantage or tempo because protection both evades blockers and shrugs off removal. This one breaks the mold. It stacks five abilities (a +2 to power, first strike, vigilance, trample, and haste) and grants no protection at all. The result is a piece of equipment that reads like a keyword soup designed to win combat rather than dodge it: haste means the creature attacks the turn it picks up the sword, vigilance keeps it back on defense, first strike and trample resolve the math against blockers, and the power bump pushes damage through. What it cannot do is protect the carrier, which is the trade the rest of the family made its identity. The equip cost matches the casting cost, so suiting up the same turn you deploy the equipment asks for a real mana commitment, and the lack of any evasion that beats removal leaves the equipped creature exposed to the same spells that answer it bare. That is the line this card walks: it makes one creature a complete combat threat in a single attachment, then leaves it as vulnerable to interaction as it ever was.