I think this card is good in cawblade mirror but weaker in other matchups and I will try to explain why.. Cawblade like tons of white creatures to block and lots of planeswalkers to dish out card advantage whilst having mana counters and such in hand. So, there are three main threats when considering cawblade, planeswalkers, Squadies, and Card advantage. This card deals with all three. First advantage, the squadies and other such blockers. War and peace easily dispatches these threats and allows our sword wielding birds to walk right on through their every defense, it makes our birds unblockable in essence. Second threat, planeswalkers. This card allows us to be efficient by attacking planeswalkers and players at the same time. Swing at an opponents Jace, knock him down some counters, and then deal damage to the opponent, which brings us to the next disadvantage when facing cawblade mirror. The fact that they have cards in hand is usually a very bad thing, and whilst this card does not... (see all)
Posted By:
TheSwarm
(5/2/2011 4:32:02 PM)
Not as good as the others in my opinion, but still pretty darn amazing.
Posted By:
divine_exodus
(4/28/2011 3:07:51 PM)
This was probably the best sword of the three in scars in standard, because of the fast clock it provided.
In EDH it's probably the weakest sword, although it would be funny in something like in (or against) decks that have a ton of cards, like Nekusar.
Posted By:
mdakw576
(2/28/2014 2:58:47 AM)
Sword of Maro and Oram.
Posted By:
Minus_Prime
(4/28/2011 3:52:22 PM)
Geese Every Sword Is................AMAZING. Hope u dont have cards in your hand plus im stillmoon protected as well. LOL
Posted By:
MasterOfEtherium
(4/29/2011 1:28:09 PM)
How can I brew a deck with this and Runeflare Trap and win... hmm.
Posted By:
lorendorky
(4/30/2011 10:44:00 AM)
werent there cards back in kamigawa that encouraged both sides to have cards in hand? like the arcane mechanic. this could work with those just sayin
Posted By:
altf4ninja
(4/30/2011 1:00:12 PM)
The one downside to this sword is I feel it is so much better than the others. Lightning helix'ish on every attack is pretty nuts, by comparison of feast and famine that potentially does nothing if they are top decking, and body and mind that while making tokens the mill doesn't necessarily do that much.
Then they make a red white one that has protection from two big removal colors, and to top it off they make it gain life and have burn all on one card. I'm imagining they worded it as the cards in your opponents hand due to that it will be that much deadlier against blue decks that are drawing lots of cards.
Posted By:
Donovan_Fabian
(5/2/2011 3:13:15 AM)
Equip this to Tidehollow Sculler. Most. Unkillable. Prick. Ever. The list of things that can't hit him when he carries this Sword is just dumb.
Tidehollow Sculler has virtual 'protection from Black' (not QUITE. If he were a Spirit Zombie, he would be Rend Flesh-proof, and thus broken)
@Grath: You have some things backwards. Then again, you posted in 2011 and it's taken some major hindsight to figure this out:
Of all the parts to Stoneforge Mystic and Scars Block that made 'Caw Blade' so bad, Batterskull and the Swords hardly mattered. No, I'm being dead serious. Sword of Fire and Ice and Sword of Light and Shadow were houses in their day too, and the Five Mirran Swords all seem fairly similar on power level.
The ones with the weakest pro-halves (pro Greens and Blues) got the best abilities. The ones with the best pro combinations (pro Whites and Reds) got the worst abilities. Every part of each Sword card is still very good, though not broken.
Caw Blade was do... (see all)
Posted By:
DarthParallax
(3/5/2012 11:25:29 AM)