Sword of the Ages
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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
Freeform 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 …

2 months 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 …

2 months 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.

hoodinium on Rith, the Awakener

8 years ago

Just realized I forgot to put down Sword of the Ages

sonnet666 on [List] The MTG Weapons Arsenal

8 years ago

Don't stop now. I believe in you!

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