
Combos Browse all Suggest
Legality
Format | Legality |
1v1 Commander | Legal |
Archenemy | Legal |
Block Constructed | Legal |
Canadian Highlander | Legal |
Casual | Legal |
Commander / EDH | Legal |
Commander: Rule 0 | Legal |
Custom | Legal |
Duel Commander | Legal |
Highlander | Legal |
Legacy | Legal |
Leviathan | Legal |
Limited | Legal |
Oathbreaker | Legal |
Oldschool 93/94 | Legal |
Planar Constructed | Legal |
Planechase | Legal |
Quest Magic | Legal |
Vanguard | Legal |
Vintage | Legal |
Sword of the Ages
Artifact
Sword of the Ages enters the battlefield tapped.
, Sacrifice Sword of the Ages and any number of creatures you control: Sword of the Ages deals X damage to target creature or player, where X is the total power of the creatures sacrificed this way, then exile Sword of the Ages and those creature cards.

jarncards on Does an animated Sword of …
1 month ago
Initially I was unsure but over time I've become increasingly convinced that it counts itself.
Emrakul's Evangel has the following oracle text: Sacrifice this creature and any number of other non-Eldrazi creatures: Create a 3/2 colorless Eldrazi Horror creature token for each creature sacrificed this way.
This one counts itself through virtually the same words, because it also happens to be a creature. The "this creature" on Emrakul's Evangel and "this artifact" on the Sword of the Ages replace using names because names were unclear to some players when clones or copying was involved, but the words always mean "this thing" even if it's no longer an artifact or creature at all, and exists solely to be self referential. So I can't see how if a card functionality reads "sacrifice this permanent and any number of creatures" wouldn't count itself as long as it's a creature given that other cards work this way
Rhadamanthus on Does an animated Sword of …
1 month ago
I admit I was stumped on this for a couple days and curious to see if someone else would take a crack at it first.
The way I see it, the big problem with interpreting this is that the game's detailed rules don't seem have a formal definition or explanation for what "in this way" specifically means. The words "in this way" are intended to refer back to a particular instruction, but you've found something where the current Oracle text seems to be more ambiguous in a way than the original printed text.
The printed text for Sword of the Ages is a little more direct in its intent, with "these creatures" more clearly referring to the "as many creatures as you choose" that were sacrificed as part of the activation cost, and then continuing to talk about the Sword and the sacrificed creatures separately in the instruction to remove them from the game. My opinion is we should take this as a hint to interpret "in this way" in the Oracle text to mean "in the way that sacrificing creatures was described earlier" and to exclude the part of the cost that requires sacrificing Sword of the Ages, even if it happened to be a creature at the time.
jarncards on Does an animated Sword of …
1 month ago
Sword of the Ages can be turned into a creature through various means like Animate Artifact , Rise and Shine and many others.
Oracle text reads: tap, Sacrifice this artifact and any number of creatures you control: This artifact deals X damage to any target, where X is the total power of the creatures sacrificed this way, then exile this artifact and those creature cards.
It seems that this artifact would also be one of the creatures sacrificed in the cost while animated, and so would add its power to X, but I'm not sure.
Anyone know for certain how this works?
Darthack2661 on
Kykar, Wind's Fury [Primer]
5 years ago
I dumped an old school Sword of the Ages in my build as an additional wincon
Chandra585 on
The Strongest of them all
5 years ago
Karametra's Acolyte and Sylvan Caryatid are nonbos with your commander, you should play 3 fewer lands, Sword of the Ages is not a very good card, and you don't have enough payoffs for your commander. I only really see Giant Solifuge, Phytotitan and maybe three other cards that are positively affected by your commander. You should either play more equipments and lean into voltron as a subtheme or fewer and go straight aggro. What is your plan to recover after a boardwipe? How well does the deck function without the commander?
Caerwyn on
Silence of the Lamb
7 years ago
Apologies for splitting this across two posts.
Here are the cards I would consider cutting based on a cursory look at your deck. Since I am not intimately familiar with your deck, some of these suggestions might be incorrect:
Retether - you do not have very many targets for this spell (5 total), reducing its effectiveness.
Surestrike Trident requires an absurd amount of mana investment, and provides little utility.
Mindcrank is a solid card with good combo abilities, but I did not see anything that directly interacted with it. While you cause significant life loss to trigger Mindcrank, I am not sure it justifies a card slot.
Amulet of Vigor does not do much for you, other than provide moderate improvements to your land base and allowing a faster trigger of Sword of the Ages. Fixing your lands would effectively eliminate the need for this card.
Hero of Iroas and Kitsune Mystic / Autumn-Tail, Kitsune Sage, like Retether, does not have enough targets to justify inclusion.
I do not think Norritt provides enough utility to spend 4 mana on a 1/1.
I do not think you have enough targets to justify Panharmonicon either.
sonnet666 on
[List] The MTG Weapons Arsenal
8 years ago
Don't stop now. I believe in you!
- Celestial Sword
- Flaming Sword
- Runesword
- Sword of Body and Mind
- Sword of Feast and Famine
- Sword of Fire and Ice
- Sword of Kaldra
- Sword of Light and Shadow
- Sword of the Ages
- Sword of the Animist
- Sword of the Chosen
- Sword of the Meek
- Sword of the Paruns
- Sword of War and Peace
- Wall of Swords (Might not count)
- Zelyon Sword
- Neglected Heirloom Flip
- Banshee's Blade
- Blade of Selves
- Blade of the Bloodchief
- Pennon Blade
- Deathrender
- Ensouled Scimitar
- Dancing Scimitar
- Leonin Scimitar
- Honed Khopesh
- Mage Slayer
- Armory of Iroas (Also Spears and Shields!)
- No-Dachi
- Oathkeeper, Takeno's Daisho
- O-Naginata
- Tatsumasa, the Dragon's Fang
- Veteran's Armaments (Also some Armor)
- Worldslayer
- Horn of Deafening
- Horn of Greed & Horn of Plenty (More like eating/drinking vessels, but eh.)
- Revelsong Horn
- Shriekhorn
- Moonsilver Spear
- Scorching Spear
- Searing Spear
- Wall of Spears (Might not count either.)
- Armory of Iroas (Also Swords and Shields!)
- Runechanter's Pike
- Kaervek's Torch
- Wall of Torches (They'll make walls out of anything these days...)
- Cathar's Shield
- Briar Shield
- Delaying Shield
- Kite Shield
- Pariah's Shield
- Dispersal Shield
- Ephemeral Shields
- Faith's Shield
- Floating Shield
- Kry Shield
- Mourner's Shield
- Rhystic Shield
- Shield of Kaldra
- Shield of the Avatar
- Shield of the Oversoul
- Shield of the Righteous
- Vanguard's Shield
- Shield of the Ages
- Shield of Duty and Reason
- Shield Sphere
- Shield Wall (Sort of?)
- Wall of Shields (I guess?)
- Spirit Shield
- Spectral Shield
- Angelic Armaments (Also a Hammer!)
- Armory of Iroas (Also Swords and Spears!)
- Horned Helm
- Vorrac Battlehorns
- Champion's Helm
- Coral Helm
- Helm of Awakening
- Helm of Chatzuk
- Helm of Kaldra
- Helm of Obedience
- Helm of Possession
- Helm of the Ghastlord
- Prowler's Helm
- Inventor's Goggles
- Ancestral Mask
- Bone Mask
- Dragon Mask
- Farsight Mask
- Illusionary Mask
- Imperial Mask
- Ivory Mask
- Jester's Mask
- Mask of Intolerance
- Mask of Law and Grace
- Mask of Memory
- Mask of Riddles
- Mask of the Mimic
- Mistform Mask
- Nemesis Mask
- Peregrine Mask
- Uba Mask
- Specter's Shroud
- Cranial Plating
- Grafted Skullcap
- Jester's Cap
- Crown of Ascension
- Crown of Awe
- Crown of Convergence
- Crown of Doom
- Crown of Empires
- Crown of Flames
- Crown of Fury
- Crown of Suspicion
- Crown of the Ages
- Crown of Vigor
- Mindstorm Crown
- Oblivion Crown
- Skullclamp
- Executioner's Hood
- General's Kabuto
- Healer's Headdress
- Amulet of Kroog
- Amulet of Quoz
- Amulet of Unmaking
- Amulet of Vigor
- Avarice Amulet
- Forethought Amulet
- Jeweled Amulet
- Veilstone Amulet
- Sigil of Distinction
- Sigil of the Nayan Gods
- Sigil of Valor
- Tainted Sigil
- Mox Diamond
- Chrome Mox
- Mox Lotus
- Mox Pearl
- Mox Emerald
- Mox Jet
- Mox Ruby
- Mox Sapphire
- Emerald Medallion
- Jet Medallion
- Ruby Medallion
- Sapphire Medallion
- Pearl Medallion
- Ashnod's Battle Gear
- Riot Gear
- Vulshok Battlegear
- Bladed Pinions
- Shielding Plax
- Argentum Armor
- Belbe's Armor
- Armor of Faith
- Armor of Thorns
- Blanchwood Armor
- Chromatic Armor
- Empyrial Armor
- Ethereal Armor
- Exoskeletal Armor
- Grafted Exoskeleton
- Flowstone Armor
- Holy Armor
- Illusionary Armor
- Improvised Armor
- Kithkin Armor
- Living Armor
- Magebane Armor
- Power Armor
- Silverskin Armor
- Slagwurm Armor
- Spidersilk Armor
- Urza's Armor
- Viscerid Armor
- Darksteel Plate
- Empyrial Plate
- Haunted Plate Mail
- Slayer's Plate
- Demonmail Hauberk
- Assault Suit
- Copper Carapace
- Neurok Stealthsuit
- Veteran's Armaments (Also some Armor)
- Celestial Mantle
- Dragon Mantle
- Farrel's Mantle
- Fiery Mantle
- Holy Mantle
- Keldon Mantle
- Lunarch Mantle
- Mantle of Leadership
- Mantle of Webs
- Nim Deathmantle
- Paradise Mantle
- Spirit Mantle
- Umbral Mantle
- Alexi's Cloak
- Armadillo Cloak
- Burning Cloak
- Chitinous Cloak
- Cloak and Dagger (Also a Dagger!)
- Cloak of Confusion
- Cloak of Feathers
- Cloak of Invisibility
- Cloak of Mists
- Haunted Cloak
- Moldervine Cloak
- Spectral Cloak
- Traveler's Cloak
- Whispersilk Cloak
- Lantern of Insight
- Reito Lantern
- Surveyor's Scope
- Courier's Capsule
- Dispeller's Capsule
- Executioner's Capsule
- Infiltration Lens
- Gorgon's Head
- Grappling Hook
- Cobbled Wings
- Hot Soup
- Kitesail
- Distorting Lens
- Lens of Clarity
- Prismatic Lens
- Thran Lens
- Urza's Contact Lenses
- Arcane Spyglass
- Glasses of Urza
- Infinite Hourglass
- Magnifying Glass
- Scrying Glass
- Sunglasses of Urza
- Twinning Glass
- Neurok Hoversail
- Wind Sail
- Skeleton Key
- Spidersilk Net
- Cloud Key
- Galvanic Key
- Key to the City
- Voltaic Key
- Spy Kit
- Stormrider Rig
- Strider Harness
- Witches' Eye
- True-Faith Censer
- Skinwing
- Thornbite Staff
- Nine-Ringed Bo
- Cultist's Staff
- Chimeric Staff
- Dingus Staff
- Proteus Staff
- Skyblinder Staff
- Staff of Domination
- Staff of Nin
- Staff of the Ages
- Staff of the Death Magus
- Staff of the Flame Magus
- Staff of the Mind Magus
- Staff of the Sun Magus
- Staff of the Wild Magus
- Staff of Zegon
- Sylvok Lifestaff
- Thunderstaff
- Voyager Staff
- Spellbinder
- Battering Ram
- Heavy Ballista
- Walking Ballista
- Ballista Charger (Also a Vehicle!)
- Gate Smasher
- Auriok Siege Sled