Printings
Sword of Once and Future
Card Information
Type: Artifact — Equipment
Mana Cost: 3
CMC: 3
Part of the Reserved List: No
Set: March of the Machine (MOM)
Rarity: Mythic
Collector Number: 265
Oracle Text
Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from blue and from black. Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, surveil 2. Then you may cast an instant or sorcery spell with mana value 2 or less from your graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead. Equip {2}
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Format Legalities
Card Rulings
- January 12, 2024
When you surveil, you may put all the cards you look at back on top of your library, you may put all of those cards into your graveyard, or you may put some of those cards on top and the rest of them into your graveyard.
Source: wotc - April 14, 2023
You choose whether or not to cast the instant or sorcery card as the triggered ability resolves. If you do, you do so as part of the resolution of that ability. You can't wait to cast it later in the turn. Timing restrictions based on the card's type are ignored.
Source: wotc - April 14, 2023
If you cast a card "without paying its mana cost," you can't pay any alternative costs. You can, however, pay additional costs. If the card has any mandatory additional costs, those must be paid to cast the card.
Source: wotc - April 14, 2023
If the card has {X} in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost.
Source: wotc - April 14, 2023
The card you cast may be one you just put into the graveyard with surveil or one already in the graveyard.
Source: wotc
Price History
To study a single card is to glimpse the heart of a spell - a frozen moment of ambition, artistry, and arcane intent. Within each glyph lies a spark: a story untold, a duel turned, a destiny altered. Treat it not as mere parchment, dear seeker, but as a shard of the Multiverse itself.