Curse Cutter (Patreon)

Wondrous item, uncommon

These shears feature an ominous, glimmering eye at their hinge. It swivels around, knowingly. You can use an action to open the shears and touch them to a cursed target. When you do, arcane threads appear between the shears' blades, representing a curse present on the target. Severing the threads as part of the action casts the remove curse spell from the shears.

Curse. These shears are cursed. Whenever the shears are used to cast remove curse on a creature or a cursed magic item that a creature is attuned to, there's a 50 percent chance that the shears cast the spell but impart a new curse on that creature. A creature cursed in this way takes 1d6 slashing damage whenever it fails a saving throw or rolls a 1 on a d20. This slashing damage can't be reduced in any way. If a creature is reduced to 0 hit points as a result of this slashing damage, a shadow rises from the corpse after 1d4 hours.

Once the shears curse a creature in this way, they can't be used again until the next dusk.

When you pare away at fate, don't be surprised when it begins to unravel.