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Akki Battle Squad

Creature — Goblin Samurai

Whenever one or more modified creatures you control attack, untap all modified creatures you control. After this phase, there is an additional combat phase. This ability triggers only once each turn. (Equipment, Auras you control, and counters are modifications.)

CMC
6
Mana cost
{5}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
rare
Set
Neon Dynasty Commander
Price
$5.11
EDHREC rank
#3745
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Akki Battle Squad card art
Akki Battle Squad turns every equipped creature into a free copy factory — attack with three geared-up creatures and you're suddenly swarming the board with hasty tokens. The cost is real: six mana is a big ask, and the effect does nothing without equipment already in play, so it's a build-around, not a staple. Helm of the Host does something similar for one creature; Akki Battle Squad does it for your whole equipped army, which is the sell in Chishiro, the Shattered Blade decks.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Chishiro, the Shattered Blade

Chishiro, the Shattered Blade

70.5% of decks · synergy 0.67

Chishiro, the Shattered Blade puts a +1/+1 counter on every modified creature at end of combat, and Akki Battle Squad floods the board with copies of your already-buffed attackers — the two cards form a self-reinforcing engine where more tokens means more counters means bigger future attacks.

02
Raiyuu, Storm's Edge

Raiyuu, Storm's Edge

52.0% of decks · synergy 0.50

Raiyuu, Storm's Edge rewards a single Samurai or Warrior attacking alone with an extra combat step, and Akki Battle Squad produces hasty Warrior tokens from that same swinging creature — each combat trigger can spawn more attackers to feed into Raiyuu's next extra swing.

03
Tetsuo, Imperial Champion

Tetsuo, Imperial Champion

48.2% of decks · synergy 0.48

Tetsuo, Imperial Champion wants an equipped creature swinging every turn, and Akki Battle Squad turns each of those attacks into a board flood of hasty tokens that carry the same auras and equipment, multiplying Tetsuo's offensive pressure with minimal additional investment.

04
Gilgamesh, Master-at-Arms

Gilgamesh, Master-at-Arms

45.2% of decks · synergy 0.44

Gilgamesh, Master-at-Arms cares about equipping creatures as a trigger engine, and Akki Battle Squad rewards that density of equipment by copying every creature that attacks while geared up — a wide board of Gilgamesh targets becomes a wide board of hasty attackers in the same swing.

05
Stangg, Echo Warrior

Stangg, Echo Warrior

45.2% of decks · synergy 0.42

Stangg, Echo Warrior creates a token copy of himself whenever he's equipped or modified, and Akki Battle Squad stacks on top by creating even more hasty tokens when those equipped creatures attack — the two cards together can generate a critical-mass board state out of a single attack step.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where Akki Battle Squad actually lives — the format's slower pace gives you time to build a board of equipped creatures, and the multiplayer math means a sudden wave of hasty tokens can threaten multiple opponents at once. Legacy and Vintage are both legal on paper, but six mana for a creature that requires a pre-existing equipment package has never been relevant in either format's fast, resource-efficient metagame. Oathbreaker is technically an option in the same way Legacy is: possible, not practical. Treat Akki Battle Squad as a Commander-only card.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

Feldon of the Third Path and Delina, Wild Mage both generate creature copies off attack triggers for less mana, though neither keys specifically off equipment the way Akki Battle Squad does — you trade the equipment synergy for lower cost and greater flexibility. If the goal is pure token production from combat, Adeline, Resplendent Cathar costs two mana less and fills the board without any equipment requirement, though the tokens don't carry equipment, which is the whole point Akki Battle Squad is built around.

Price Context

Current price

$5.11 mid tier

At $5.11, Akki Battle Squad sits in the mid tier — expensive enough to notice in a budget build, cheap enough that it's not a barrier in an optimized one. It's a narrow build-around with a small target audience, so the price is unlikely to climb unless a new equipment-heavy commander pushes it into wider play.

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