The Mizukage, the Giant Clam, and the Mirage

The Mizukage, the giant clam, and the mirage brings surreal combat to the war as a reanimated Mizukage's mirage genjutsu and a summoned clam create a battlefield of illusion. The episode delivers a canon war fight built on misdirection — real and false targets blurred, the alliance fighting through a mirage to reach a deathless enemy. It's the war's inventive combat, the Edo Tensei's reanimated Kage forcing the living to battle perception itself, the clam's mirage a puzzle of illusion layered over the deathless-enemy problem.