Enormous Energy Blade
Artifact — Equipment
Equipped creature gets +4/+0.
Whenever this Equipment becomes attached to a creature, tap that creature.
Equip (
: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty
- Price
- $0.18
- EDHREC rank
- #22625
Enormous Energy Blade turns any creature into a 8/8 trampling threat for a single equip cost, with the blade itself entering play free on the creature that dealt combat damage to cast it. The setup requirement — dealing combat damage first — is real friction, but the payoff is a one-card, zero-ongoing-mana power spike that ends games fast.
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, Enormous Energy Blade belongs in voltron strategies that already want to connect with combat damage — the blade rewards exactly the playstyle those decks are built around, and a free 8/8 trample upgrade closes games that stall at parity. Competitive formats like Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer have faster, more resilient threats that don't ask you to deal combat damage before the payoff lands, so Enormous Energy Blade won't find a home there. It's legal in Oathbreaker, where the singleton constraint and lower life totals make a one-card, high-ceiling equipment more interesting than it would be in an 80-card singleton shell.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.18 bulk tier
At $0.18, Enormous Energy Blade is deep bulk — you're paying almost nothing for a high-ceiling equipment. Bulk rares at this price point rarely hold or climb unless a format breaks them open, so treat it as a free inclusion for the right deck, not a pickup for value.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.