Dragonfire Blade
Artifact — Equipment
Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has hexproof from monocolored.
Equip 
. This ability costs 
less to activate for each color of the creature it targets.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Tarkir: Dragonstorm Promos
- Price
- $0.97
- EDHREC rank
- #2451
Dragonfire Blade enters as a 0/0 Equipment that grows with each activation, payable in
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Kotis, the Fangkeeper
Kotis, the Fangkeeper's ability to repeatedly activate Equipment abilities for free is exactly what Dragonfire Blade wants — each free activation stacks another +1/+1 counter and grows whatever creature is holding it without spending a single mana.
Eshki Dragonclaw
Eshki Dragonclaw cares about Equipment and Warriors, and Dragonfire Blade slips naturally into that shell as a low-cost Equipment that can scale into a genuine threat over a long game.
Tetsuo, Imperial Champion
Tetsuo, Imperial Champion wins by stacking abilities on the same equipped creature, and Dragonfire Blade's self-growing counter engine turns a modest attacker into a lethal one with minimal investment.
Cloud, Planet's Champion
Cloud, Planet's Champion rewards repeated Equipment activations, and Dragonfire Blade turns those activations into permanent +1/+1 counters that outlast any board state reset.
Sokka and Suki
Sokka and Suki generate value through equipment synergies and attacking, and Dragonfire Blade provides a cheap Equipment that scales in power exactly as a long combat-focused game demands.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Dragonfire Blade is a niche card with a narrow but genuine home — Equipment-activation decks treat it as a payoff, not filler, and the Crackdown Construct interaction can end games out of nowhere. Outside Commander, the card is legal across Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, and Vintage, but sees virtually no competitive play in any of those formats; the power level simply doesn't compete with what those formats demand. In Oathbreaker it follows the same logic as Commander — fine in the right shell, irrelevant in most. Pauper is the one format where it's not legal, though it wouldn't be a factor there anyway.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Crackdown ConstructDragonfire Blade
Infinitely large creature until end of turn
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Current price
$0.97 bulk tier
At $0.97, Dragonfire Blade sits at the high end of bulk — you're paying almost a dollar for a card with a niche application rather than broad demand. It holds that price primarily because of Commander interest in Equipment-activation synergies, not because of any competitive format presence.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.