---
name: "Ensouled Scimitar"
mana_cost: "{3}"
cmc: 3
type_line: "Artifact — Equipment"
colors: []
color_identity: []
keywords: ["Equip"]
set: "5DN"
set_name: "Fifth Dawn"
collector_number: "119"
rarity: "uncommon"
artist: "Edward P. Beard, Jr."
oracle_id: "aa5865f5-aafc-4e46-995b-f005aeefde91"
canonical_url: "https://avascry.com/printing/ensouled-scimitar-5dn"
legalities:
  commander: "legal"
  standard: "not_legal"
  modern: "legal"
  pioneer: "not_legal"
  legacy: "legal"
  vintage: "legal"
  pauper: "not_legal"
  penny: "not_legal"
---

# Ensouled Scimitar
- **Mana Cost:** `{3}` (CMC: 3)
- **Type:** Artifact — Equipment
- **Keywords:** Equip

## Oracle Text
{3}: This artifact becomes a 1/5 Spirit artifact creature with flying until end of turn. (Equipment that's a creature can't equip a creature.)
Equipped creature gets +1/+5.
Equip {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

## Top 4096-Dim Neural Synergies
1. [Haunted Plate Mail](/printing/haunted-plate-mail-plst.md) — Artifact — Equipment
2. [Leonin Scimitar](/printing/leonin-scimitar-j22.md) — Artifact — Equipment
3. [Malefic Scythe](/printing/malefic-scythe-m21.md) — Artifact — Equipment
4. [Scavenged Blade](/printing/scavenged-blade-znr.md) — Artifact — Equipment
5. [Hookblade](/printing/hookblade-acr.md) — Artifact — Equipment
6. [Malamet Scythe](/printing/malamet-scythe-lci.md) — Artifact — Equipment

## Printing Details
- **Set:** Fifth Dawn (5DN) #119
- **Rarity:** Uncommon
- **Artist:** Edward P. Beard, Jr.
- **Total Printings:** 8 across all historical editions

## Format Legalities
Commander: `legal` | Standard: `not_legal` | Modern: `legal` | Pioneer: `not_legal` | Legacy: `legal` | Vintage: `legal` | Pauper: `not_legal` | Penny: `not_legal`