Dwarven Hammer
Artifact — Equipment
When this Equipment enters, you may pay 
. If you do, create a 2/1 red Dwarf Berserker creature token, then attach this Equipment to it.
Equipped creature gets +3/+0 and has trample.
Equip 
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Commander Masters
- Price
- $0.16
- EDHREC rank
- #15481
Dwarven Hammer slaps a creature for +2/+0 and trample at the cost of two mana to cast and two to equip — playable stats, but that four-mana total investment is a real ask. Outside of Bruenor Battlehammer making the equip free, this is a budget filler piece that rarely earns its slot.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Bruenor Battlehammer
Bruenor Battlehammer zeroes out the equip cost on Dwarven Hammer, turning a mediocre four-mana commitment into a two-mana trample pump that stacks with Bruenor's own power-scaling ability — that's exactly the redundancy his equipment-matters deck wants.
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 |
In Commander, Dwarven Hammer is a role-player in exactly one place: Bruenor Battlehammer decks that want cheap equipment bodies to trigger synergies and don't have the budget for better options. Everywhere else, the equip cost kills it — Pauper included, where more efficient one- and two-mana equipment already crowd the format. Competitive formats like Legacy and Vintage have no use for it whatsoever. Dwarven Hammer is a Commander-only card, and even there it sits near the bottom of the equipment pile.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.16 bulk tier
At $0.16, Dwarven Hammer is deep bulk — you're not paying for power, you're paying for a slot. It holds no meaningful value and never will; grab it from a bulk bin if Bruenor Battlehammer demands the numbers, and don't spend a second thought on it otherwise.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.