Avacyn's Collar

Artifact — Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+0 and has vigilance.
Whenever equipped creature dies, if it was a Human, create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying.
Equip {2}

CMC
1
Mana cost
{1}
Color identity
C
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Shadows of the Past
Price
EDHREC rank
#19007
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Avacyn's Collar card art
Avacyn's Collar equips for one mana and grants its wearer vigilance plus a death trigger that makes a 1/1 Spirit token — meaningful board presence for a single mana investment. The combo ceiling with Ashnod's Altar and a sacrifice loop is what elevates it from draft chaff to a card worth sleeving in the right shell.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander
legacy
modern
pioneer
standard
vintage
pauper
oathbreaker

Avacyn's Collar is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it sees essentially no play outside Commander. Legacy and Vintage have far more efficient one-mana artifacts, and Modern has enough redundancy that a slow, conditional token generator doesn't compete. In Commander, Avacyn's Collar finds its niche in Cleric, Spirit, and sacrifice-focused builds where the death-trigger token is actually on-theme and the one-mana equip cost is cheap enough to recur repeatedly in a single turn.

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Price Context

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Pricing data for Avacyn's Collar isn't currently available in our system — check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for a live number. Given its narrow appeal and low tournament demand, it has historically sat near bulk pricing, making it an easy pickup if the combo line interests you.

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