Bronze Sword
Artifact — Equipment
Equipped creature gets +2/+0.
Equip 
(: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Theros Beyond Death
- Price
- $0.17
- EDHREC rank
- #19451
Bronze Sword enters for 1 and equips for 2, granting +2/+0 — three mana total to push a creature from not-quite-threatening to slightly-more-not-quite-threatening. Strictly worse than equipment that costs the same or less and does more, so there is no format where Bronze Sword is the right call.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Bronze Sword is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker — and it sees virtually no play in any of them. In Commander, a three-mana investment for +2/+0 with no other effect is far below the baseline; equipment needs to either cost almost nothing, equip for free, or provide utility beyond a static pump to earn a slot. Pauper is the format most tolerant of cheap equipment, but even there Bronze Sword competes against commons that trade less mana for more impact. Across every format, it sits as a draft filler card that never makes the transition to constructed.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.17 bulk tier
At $0.17, Bronze Sword is deep bulk — the kind of card that ends up in a trade binder's back pages. Bulk stays bulk; there is no competitive demand to move this needle.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.