Usually the swords are named for complimentary elements rather than similar ones. A R/W sword might be more like "Sword of Order and Chaos".
Posted By:
StaberFire
(9/25/2010 7:34:02 AM)
So overpowered. Sure its mythic, but other equipment in this set struggle to get +2+2 and another ability for this cost, let alone producing 2 different forms of threat at the same time.
Posted By:
psyklone
(9/27/2010 12:36:29 AM)
@ Daijin26: Milling actually has no impact on your opponent's next card unless you know what that card is in advance. It is the same as shuffling the deck; you are replacing the top random card with a different random card. Would you feel the same if you had milled off two cards and then he drew Tolarian Academy?
With that being said, this is still a very strong piece of equipment. It does give you advantage in the form of tokens. The buffs are great. With a couple of these, milling could easily be an alternate win condition. And let's not forget the cost!
The artwork is nice too.
Posted By:
Zosk
(9/28/2010 11:01:20 AM)
Just a little bit broken... I like it.
Posted By:
dragonking987
(1/22/2011 4:55:34 PM)
You have to respect a sword that makes people you poke with it feel like wolves are biting their brain.
Posted By:
Enemy_Tricolor
(10/4/2010 10:59:04 PM)
This sword is absolutely incredible. I think that it's better than the last two.
Here's why:
They gave you 1 mana affects - draw, shock, disentomb, lifegain, and this one gives you two mana affects - getting a 2/2 dude, milling for 10.
Sure, it might not be the colors you want protection from, but it makes your creatures better than the green creatures' humongousness, right?
I think that the Green/Black sword will be Sword of Life and Death. I'll probably be just as awesome as this one. Fingers crossed they reprint the original two as well. :)
Posted By:
LordAlvon
(9/29/2010 5:20:43 PM)
It's a good card. Of the three swords though, this is the worst.
sword of fire and ice gives you double card advantage each turn (one because it shocks a creature (or a player) and one because it draws a card).
sword of light and shadow also gives you card advantage, in returning the creatures from your gy to your hand, which is pretty neat, since you then have always creatures around to equip this sword on, if the current one gets killed. The lifegain is not that awesome but is ok.
This one does NOT generate card advantage, so it's worse than the other two. Creating tokens is fine, the mill... is so-so. As always, unless you mill the last card away of your opponents deck, it basically helps your opponent instead of killing him.
So while you could put the other two swords in basically all decks with some creatures, this one works only well in a mill deck.
5/5 for the red-blue one. 4/5 for the white black one. 3.5 for this one.
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Posted By:
majinara
(12/5/2010 9:33:24 AM)
Many people here are failing at math.
Unless you milled their whole deck and won that way, the milling didn't do anything.
Let's say the opponent has 40 cards in his deck, with one card he really wants. There's a 25% chance that you'll mill it with one hit of this. There's also a 25% chance that the card was in to top 11-20 cards, and he's now more likey to draw it and win the game. All this math basically cancels out, and makes milling the same as shuffling (unless they get milled out).
"Plus with 10 cards off the top of the deck, you have roughly a 1 in 5 chance (compensating for cards drawn in game) of hitting at least one vital card your opponent relies on."
"Most people don't understand how powerful 10 cards is. One of those cards could be just the card you need to win the game, like perhaps a big Jace or a titan."
"lets say your fighting black red? wonder how many anticreature spells you just got rid of, or blue? wonder how many counters you just got rid of"
"More often tha... (see all)
Posted By:
The_AC
(1/31/2013 4:14:02 PM)
They had better make the R/W sword terrible, or else this will be the worst of the Sword of X and Y cycle by a wide margin. Ok, I confess I'm not really hoping that they make the R/W sword bad. This was just a roundabout way of bringing up the fact that this sword is the apple that fell FAR away from the tree.
All the other Swords get two abilities. Having the blue mechanic mill cards effectively means it doesn't exist. Are you really going to be using this card in a dedicated Mill deck? Let me answer that for you: no, you'd be ill-advised to try.
Additionally, Pro: green and Pro: blue are the worst combination of protections for a creature to have, as neither green nor blue are strong in regards to creature removal.
EDIT: madeforipod,
Milling ten is a red herring. It sort of feels like you're doing something, but only if you don't think too much about it. If you don't mill the last ten cards of their deck away, then you didn't do anything. They very likely have more threa... (see all)
Posted By:
scumbling1
(3/6/2011 9:18:09 AM)