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Accorder's Shield

Artifact — Equipment

Equipped creature gets +0/+3 and has vigilance. (Attacking doesn't cause it to tap.)
Equip {3} ({3}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

CMC
0
Mana cost
{0}
Color identity
C
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Magic 2014
Price
$0.22
EDHREC rank
#6739
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Accorder's Shield card art
Accorder's Shield gives a creature +0/+3 and vigilance for zero mana on entry — the equip cost is where you pay, but in artifact-synergy shells that cost is beside the point. Emry, Lurker of the Loch recasts it from the graveyard for free, and Fblthp, Lost on the Range gets it as a top-deck hit that locks in surveilling ahead — both turn a vanilla equipment into an engine piece.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Fblthp, Lost on the Range

Fblthp, Lost on the Range

60.0% of decks · synergy 0.59

Fblthp, Lost on the Range tops the list because Accorder's Shield costs zero to cast, which means Fblthp can hit it off the top and immediately set up the next draw without losing tempo — 60% of Fblthp builds run it for exactly that reason.

02
Meria, Scholar of Antiquity

Meria, Scholar of Antiquity

21.6% of decks · synergy 0.21

Meria, Scholar of Antiquity wants untapped artifacts for mana and card access, and Accorder's Shield enters the battlefield untapped at zero cost, making it an immediate Meria activation without spending a resource.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper legal
oathbreaker legal

Accorder's Shield does nothing in competitive non-rotating formats — Legacy, Modern, and Vintage all move too fast for a stat-padding equipment with no enters-the-battlefield effect. Pauper is the one non-Commander home worth mentioning, specifically in artifact or blink shells that abuse zero-mana permanents, though it still sits on the fringe. Commander is where the card actually earns a slot: artifact-count payoffs, Emry loops, and Fblthp engines all want a free artifact that can be replayed or surveilled into without penalty. Outside of those specific Commander niches, it's a bench card in every format.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.22 bulk tier

At $0.22, Accorder's Shield is deep bulk — cheap enough to pick up as a throw-in without a second thought. Bulk commons and uncommons with narrow combo relevance rarely climb, so treat this as a low-cost slot-filler rather than any kind of hold.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.