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Starforged Sword

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Starforged Sword, Bloomburrow printing
Bloomburrow BLB · No. 249 2024-08-02

Card text

{4}
Artifact — Equipment
Gift a tapped Fish (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, when it enters, they create a tapped 1/1 blue Fish creature token.) When this Equipment enters, if the gift was promised, attach this Equipment to target creature you control. Equipped creature gets +3/+3 and loses flying. Equip {3}
Keywords: Gift, Equip
EDHREC rank #15110 Uncommon Not on the Reserved List
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Standard ✓ Legal
Pioneer ✓ Legal
Modern ✓ Legal
Legacy ✓ Legal
Vintage ✓ Legal
Pauper ∅ Not legal
Commander ✓ Legal
Oathbreaker ✓ Legal
Brawl ✓ Legal
Historic ✓ Legal
Timeless ✓ Legal
Alchemy ✓ Legal
Explorer ∅ Not legal
Gladiator ✓ Legal
Penny ∅ Not legal
Duel ✓ Legal

Official rulings

11 rulings · in English, source Scryfall

If an ability of the equipped creature states that it has flying "as long as" a condition is true, that condition becoming true won't cause the creature to gain flying. For example, if the equipped creature "has flying as long as it's attacking," it won't gain flying even if it attacks after Starforged Sword becomes attached to it.

2024-07-26 · Wizards of the Coast

If the equipped creature gains flying after Starforged Sword became attached to it, it will have flying.

2024-07-26 · Wizards of the Coast

Starforged Sword can be attached to a creature that didn't have flying to begin with.

2024-07-26 · Wizards of the Coast

In the main set, there are four different kinds of gifts. "Gift a Food" causes the chosen opponent to create a Food token, while "Gift a Treasure" causes the chosen opponent to create a Treasure token. "Gift a card" causes them to draw a card, and "Gift a tapped Fish" causes them to create a tapped 1/1 blue Fish creature token. The Commander decks contain two more kinds of gifts: "Gift an Octopus," which causes the chosen opponent to create an 8/8 blue Octopus creature token, and "Gift an extra turn," which causes them to take an extra turn after the current turn ends.

2024-07-26 · Wizards of the Coast

As an additional cost to cast a spell with gift, you can promise the listed gift to an opponent. That opponent is chosen as part of that additional cost. The gift isn't given at this time; rather, it's given at a later time based on whether or not the spell is a permanent spell.

2024-07-26 · Wizards of the Coast

If you copy a spell for which the gift was promised, the gift was also promised to the same opponent for the copy. If a card or token enters as a copy of a permanent that's already on the battlefield, the gift isn't promised for that new permanent, even if it was promised for the original.

2024-07-26 · Wizards of the Coast

If a spell for which the gift was promised is countered, doesn't resolve (perhaps because all of its targets are illegal), or is otherwise removed from the stack, the gift won't be given. None of its other effects will happen either.

2024-07-26 · Wizards of the Coast

For instants and sorceries with gift, the gift is given to the appropriate opponent as part of the resolution of the spell. This happens before any of the spell's other effects would take place.

2024-07-26 · Wizards of the Coast

Some instant or sorcery spells require alternative or additional targets if the gift was promised. You ignore these targeting requirements if the gifts aren't promised for those spells. On the other hand, you can promise a gift for a permanent spell even if you won't be able to choose targets for an enters ability of that permanent once the spell resolves.

2024-07-26 · Wizards of the Coast

For permanent spells with gift, an ability triggers when that permanent enters if the gift was promised. When that ability resolves, the gift is given to the appropriate opponent.

2024-07-26 · Wizards of the Coast

You can't pay a gift cost more than once.

2024-07-26 · Wizards of the Coast

All printings

Starforged Sword, Bloomburrow printing
Bloomburrow
BLB · #249
Uncommon
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Spellbound Cards & Games · Condition LP