Adelbert Steiner
Legendary Creature — Human Knight
Lifelink
Adelbert Steiner gets +1/+1 for each Equipment you control.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Final Fantasy
- Price
- $0.18
- EDHREC rank
- #7552
Adelbert Steiner enters with a Knight creature token equipped with every Equipment you control — that's immediate, potentially massive board presence for a single card. The cost is real: five mana is slow, and the payoff scales entirely with how many Equipment you're already running, making him a role-player rather than a standalone threat.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Cloud, Planet's Champion
Cloud, Planet's Champion is the natural home for Adelbert Steiner — Cloud's ability to tutor and recur Equipment means Steiner reliably enters with multiple pieces attached, turning a five-mana spell into a fully-armed Knight the moment it resolves.
Amy Rose
Amy Rose rewards stacking Equipment on a single creature, and Adelbert Steiner delivers a fresh, pre-loaded body to absorb that suite whenever the board needs rebuilding.
Cloud, Midgar Mercenary
Cloud, Midgar Mercenary builds around suiting up attackers efficiently, and Adelbert Steiner fills the role of a redundant, self-equipping threat that keeps the pressure on without spending extra mana on equip costs.
Syr Gwyn, Hero of Ashvale
Syr Gwyn, Hero of Ashvale eliminates equip costs for attacking Knights, so Adelbert Steiner enters already equipped and immediately qualifies as a free-equip attacker — no tempo lost at all.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Adelbert Steiner actually does something — Equipment-tribal decks run enough artifacts to make the token enter as a legitimate threat, and five mana is acceptable in a format where games go long. In 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer, a five-mana 1/1 token generator with no immediate protection is far too slow and situational to see play. Standard legality is technically there, but the same problem applies: the payoff requires critical Equipment mass that 60-card decks can't reliably assemble. Adelbert Steiner is a Commander card through and through.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.18 bulk tier
At $0.18, Adelbert Steiner is bulk — easy to acquire and easy to cut if the Equipment count in your deck doesn't justify it. Don't expect that price to move meaningfully unless a new Equipment-centric Commander pushes demand.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.