The five Swords are all valuable cards, since they give the equipped creature +2/+2, protection from two enemy colors and excellent triggered abilities
It sniffs and snuffles around, looking at the long faces of the Magic players who were promised that Magic 2010 would be a set with all new cards, only to find out that many of them were merely renamed cards such as Runeclaw Bear and Divination
As such, this would be very playable in Limited, and might even replace a few of its similar counterparts in niche Standard decks
The joke with this card in The Brothers' War Limited was that it only actually had two modes: create some tokens and distribute +1/+1 counters
Creatures you control of the chosen type get +2/+2 and have first strike and trample
This leads to corner cases where Wizards may have to ban something uniquely in Arena Best-of-One play, such as Leyline of Resonance