Dakkon Blackblade
Legendary Creature — Human Warrior
Dakkon Blackblade's power and toughness are each equal to the number of lands you control.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BUW
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Legends
- Price
- $97.07
- EDHREC rank
- #18294
Dakkon Blackblade is a creature whose power and toughness equal the number of lands you control — in a land-heavy Commander deck, that means a 10/10 or bigger by mid-game for just six mana. The payoff is real, but the ceiling is entirely land-count dependent, so he earns his slot in decks built around land acceleration and rewards nothing in a base 36-land shell.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Dakkon Blackblade actually lives — he slots in as a value creature under landfall and land-ramp commanders, or goes in the command zone himself for an Esper build that wins through a massive swinging threat. In Legacy and Vintage he's legal but functionally irrelevant; six mana for a vanilla-sized beater with no enters-the-battlefield effect and no evasion doesn't compete in formats with Delver of Secrets and Griselbrand. Oathbreaker has him legal as well, but the smaller starting hand count and tighter mana constraints make the ramp requirement harder to fulfill.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
Dakkon Blackblade's role — a large creature whose stats scale with your land count — is approximated at a fraction of the cost by cards like Multani, Yavimaya's Avatar or Ulvenwald Hydra, both under $3 and both threatening similar or larger stat lines in land-heavy builds. Neither gives you the Esper color identity or the historical novelty, but if the goal is a land-scaling finisher, those options get most of the job done without the premium price tag.
Price Context
Current price
$97.07 premium tier
At $97.07, Dakkon Blackblade sits firmly in the premium tier, driven almost entirely by its status as an original Magic card with a decades-long collector floor rather than competitive demand. It holds value as a collectible, but as a gameplay piece you are paying a steep nostalgia tax for a role that cheaper printings fill just as well.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.