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Its not like they dont like doing that

When the equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, the Sword deals even more damage to them equal to the cards in their hand, while you gain one life for each card in yours

What do we need the Behold the Beyond for

Stay open and transition into control or midrange with some reanimation value

While this can be used as a combo card (to do weird stuff in Changeling decks), its probably going to head to the 99 of your First Sliver deck, or command your swarm if youre just getting in

You can have any number of them in your deck, so you could have several variations to use in a game rather than having to pick your favorite