Sword of Existence and Nothingness

[Lucifer, Sapere Aude]

Sword of Existence and Nothingness

6

Legendary Artifact — Equipment

Equipped creature gets +4/+4 and has protection from colorless and from multicolor. This effect doesn't remove Sword of Existence and Nothingness

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, exile target permanent, then add at the beginning of your next main phase.

Equip

The definitive sword of X and Y. With the adding of protection of colorless, we now have a collection of swords that protect the creature from every possible source, at least when it comes to damage and targeting, and the adding of multicolor seems a nice way to make contrast and to have niche but overall cool protections if you see the card in the big picture. Somehow flavorful too, colorless gives a nice idea of void and nothing and is represented also by the ability to exile and annichilate into nothingness any kind of thing. On the other hand, multicolor gives the idea of the diversity of life and the "add WUBRG" represent the source of creation of new things (the spells you will cast from hand, presumably).

Costs and stats are all doubled compared to the regular Sword of X and Y, because this power level would be certaintly absurd at that mana cost, and also, I like the idea that this sword is like the "king" the rule all the others, made it legendary not only for power level balance, but also to allow a few tricks, especially in EDH, as being able to be tutored by Sisay, Weatherlight Captain for example. Obviously this is a "timmy" sword not designed or pushed for competitive play, but splashy enough to be exciting and powerul in the right casual environment. (also, it's actually still pretty pushed if you compare it with other equipments with similar costs and effects like the Argentum Armor.)
Comments?

[CalebLost]

small note: you have to add "This effect doesn't remove Sword of Existence and Nothingness" to the protection ability, otherwise the protection from colorless will unattach the sword itself

[Lucifer, Sapere Aude]

small note: you have to add "This effect doesn't remove Sword of Existence and Nothingness" to the protection ability, otherwise the protection from colorless will unattach the sword itself

Wow good catch. Always forget that kind of interaction. I will add it now, thanks.

[Krishnath]

An interesting card for sure. Also worth of note, while it protects from colorless and multicolor cards, it adds no protection for monocolored ones. So basically, the creature still dies to/gets exiled by cards like Swords to Plowshares and Murder.

[Lucifer, Sapere Aude]

An interesting card for sure. Also worth of note, while it protects from colorless and multicolor cards, it adds no protection for monocolored ones. So basically, the creature still dies to/gets exiled by cards like Swords to Plowshares and Murder.

It's made on purpose, the protections are niche, so they don't feel too oppressive. The real strong point of the Sword are the triggered abilities.

[void_nothing]

This is neat. Maybe it doesn't feel 100% like a Sword cycle member given that it's bigger and legendary, but the dual protections and triggered abilities fit.

[Krishnath]

An interesting card for sure. Also worth of note, while it protects from colorless and multicolor cards, it adds no protection for monocolored ones. So basically, the creature still dies to/gets exiled by cards like Swords to Plowshares and Murder.

It's made on purpose, the protections are niche, so they don't feel too oppressive. The real strong point of the Sword are the triggered abilities.

Oh, I was certain that it was on purpose, like the other swords it has its strength, and weaknesses. The creature being able to be dealt with by monocolored cards is such a weakness. While the immunity to most colorless removal sources (and the almighty Terminate) is a strength.

[Lucifer, Sapere Aude]

An interesting card for sure. Also worth of note, while it protects from colorless and multicolor cards, it adds no protection for monocolored ones. So basically, the creature still dies to/gets exiled by cards like Swords to Plowshares and Murder.

It's made on purpose, the protections are niche, so they don't feel too oppressive. The real strong point of the Sword are the triggered abilities.

Oh, I was certain that it was on purpose, like the other swords it has its strength, and weaknesses. The creature being able to be dealt with by monocolored cards is such a weakness. While the immunity to most colorless removal sources (and the almighty Terminate) is a strength.

Also, all the Vindicate and Maelstrom pulse variant spells are pretty much popular removals too. You can read it almost as "protection from Commanders" since most of them are multicolor anyway, and even the all mighty Progenitus can't deal it in defense.

On the other hand I just realized that "protection from colorless" means also that this is the only equipment the creature can ever use, a little sad the creature won't have the all the swords together

[user_938036]

Adding mana feels weird and like a lesser version of feast. Would you consider either casting a card or simply putting a permanent into play?

[Krishnath]

It's made on purpose, the protections are niche, so they don't feel too oppressive. The real strong point of the Sword are the triggered abilities.

Oh, I was certain that it was on purpose, like the other swords it has its strength, and weaknesses. The creature being able to be dealt with by monocolored cards is such a weakness. While the immunity to most colorless removal sources (and the almighty Terminate) is a strength.

Also, all the Vindicate and Maelstrom pulse variant spells are pretty much popular removals too. You can read it almost as "protection from Commanders" since most of them are multicolor anyway, and even the all mighty Progenitus can't deal it in defense.

On the other hand I just realized that "protection from colorless" means also that this is the only equipment the creature can ever use, a little sad the creature won't have the all the swords together

Well, that is not technically true, there are a few colored equipment now.

[Lucifer, Sapere Aude]

Adding mana feels weird and like a lesser version of feast. Would you consider either casting a card or simply putting a permanent into play?

That could work too, I choose "add " because is give the most strongly feeling of the "multicolor" effect of the card, as "exile target permanent" gives the idea of the colorless void. But I think that is nice that you can use the mana to eventually activate abilities even on an empty hand.