Brothers Yamazaki
Legendary Creature — Human Samurai
Bushido 1 (Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
If there are exactly two permanents named Brothers Yamazaki on the battlefield, the "legend rule" doesn't apply to them.
Each other creature named Brothers Yamazaki gets +2/+2 and has haste.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Foundations Jumpstart
- Price
- $0.34
- EDHREC rank
- #23136
Brothers Yamazaki is a 2/2 Legendary Samurai for two mana — unimpressive on its own, but the deck is built around the fact that Commander's singleton rule has a famous exception: if you control both copies, each gets +2/+2, first strike, and haste, turning two mediocre creatures into a 4/4 first-striking pair that attacks the same turn they land. The cost is building an entire Commander deck around a two-card lock that your opponents can break by killing either copy.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Brothers Yamazaki is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but its design is almost entirely Commander-native — the Legend Rule exception that lets you control two copies is the entire reason the card exists, and that payoff requires deliberately running two Brothers Yamazaki as your commander, which only Commander's partner-adjacent rules support. In Legacy and Vintage, a 2/2 for two with a conditional buff competes against formats where that slot is occupied by far more powerful threats, and the two-copy setup never naturally occurs. Modern is the same story — nothing about the card scales to what that format demands. Brothers Yamazaki is a Commander card wearing a multi-format legal badge.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.34 bulk tier
At $0.34, Brothers Yamazaki is deep bulk — a card with a genuinely unique mechanical identity that the market has decided is a novelty rather than a staple. It's unlikely to appreciate unless a new Commander product pushes Samurai tribal into relevance, so buy it for the fun of the build, not for any future upside.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.