Sword of Kaldra /
Shield of Kaldra /
Helm of Kaldra (Mirrodin / Darksteel / Fifth Dawn)
This combo set came about because the
Mirrodin design team (Tyler Bielman, Mike Elliott, Brian Tinsman and myself) was trying to think of cool things to do with equipment. One day, Tyler submitted the following three cards:
Sword of Jayd
Legendary Artifact Equipment- Weapon
Equipped creature gains +6/+0.
When equipped creature blocks or is blocked by a creature, that creature is removed from the game.
~this~ can't be the target of spells or abilities.
Shield of Jayd
Legendary Artifact Equipment- Armor
Equipped creature gets +0/+6 and can't be the target of spells or abilities.
~this~ can't be the target of spells or abilities.
Ring of Jayd
Legendary Artifact Equipment- Item
Equipped creature gets +4/+4.
~this~ can't be the target of spells or abilities.
If you control Sword of Jayd and Shield of Jayd, put a 10/10 white avatar creature token into play and move all artifact equipment cards you control onto it.
If you do the math, you'll notice that Jayd becomes a 20/20 untargetable creature. The
Mirrodin team tweaked the cards a bit, but kept the general concept of three pieces of equipment that call forth the legend token to wear them. The one other suggestion of the team was to spread the three items across the three sets in the block. This allowed us to build up the trio as new sets came out. In fact, I'm very proud that
Shield of Kaldra is the first card in
Magic to reference a card from a future set.