If you choose a target creature card in your graveyard and that card is an illegal target by the time the triggered ability tries to resolve, the ability won't resolve. You won't gain 3 life. If you don't choose a target at all, you just gain 3 life.
Sword of Light and Shadow
The triggered ability can target a creature card that was put into your graveyard as a result of state-based actions immediately after the combat damage that caused the ability to trigger.
Last observed on Scryfall 2 months ago at $29.08. Over the trailing 90 days the price moved between $19.16 and $29.08 across 98 observations. Cross-checked across TCGplayer, eBay sold, Cardmarket EU, and Star City.
This printing is one of 2 catalogued treatments from 2XM — the lineup includes Borderless alongside the standard finish. Across our catalog the Rarix library tracks every variant in the same family so collectors can compare price, scarcity and demand inside a single lineage.
Card #366 of *Double Masters*, the set that shipped alongside the August 2020 Double Masters release.
Card type: Artifact — Equipment, printed at mythic. Mythic rares historically land in roughly one out of every eight boosters at standard print densities. Mana cost: {3} (3 converted). Keyword abilities: Equip.
Legal across the major constructed formats — Modern, Legacy, Vintage, and Commander — plus Standard rotation play.
EDHrec ranks this card #2,186 in Commander, putting it in the niche-pick tier of the format's playable pool.
Illustrated by Kev Walker. Rarix catalogs 1,917 other cards credited to this artist.
Magic: The Gathering · ™ & © Wizards of the Coast · Illus. Kev Walker
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