Eater of Virtue
Legendary Artifact — Equipment
Whenever equipped creature dies, exile it.
Equipped creature gets +2/+0.
As long as a card exiled with Eater of Virtue has flying, equipped creature has flying. The same is true for first strike, double strike, deathtouch, haste, hexproof, indestructible, lifelink, menace, protection, reach, trample, and vigilance.
Equip 
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty Promos
- Price
- $1.04
- EDHREC rank
- #8859
Eater of Virtue is a one-mana equipment that permanently absorbs keywords from creatures that die while equipped to it — every lost attacker makes it stronger. Raiyuu, Storm's Edge decks are its natural home, where a single combat step can load it with double strike, vigilance, and more before the turn ends.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Raiyuu, Storm's Edge
Raiyuu, Storm's Edge triggers additional combat steps for solo attacking Samurai and Warriors, which means Eater of Virtue's equipped creature repeatedly picks up keywords from anything that dies in those extra combats — the equipment snowballs across the same turn it enters.
Odric, Lunarch Marshal
Odric, Lunarch Marshal redistributes keywords across your entire board at the start of each combat, so Eater of Virtue's growing keyword collection stops being a single-creature buff and becomes a team-wide stat sheet.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Eater of Virtue earns its slot in any go-wide or combat-focused white deck — one mana to equip means you're not losing tempo, and creature death is inevitable at any table. In competitive 1v1 formats like Modern and Pioneer, the payoff is too slow; you need keywords to accumulate over multiple turns, and opponents will simply remove the equipped creature before it matters. Legacy and Vintage have access to faster, more reliable equipment packages, so Eater of Virtue doesn't crack those lists. Oathbreaker sits closer to Commander in pace, and the same combat-value shells that want it there apply here too.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$1.04 cheap tier
At $1.04, Eater of Virtue is firmly budget — you're paying almost nothing for a card with genuine upside in the right shell. Equipment rarely spikes without tournament demand, and this one has none outside Commander, so the price is unlikely to move significantly in either direction.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.