Excalibur, Sword of Eden
Legendary Artifact — Equipment
This spell costs 
less to cast, where X is the total mana value of historic permanents you control. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)
Equipped creature gets +10/+0 and has vigilance.
Equip legendary creature 
- CMC
- 12
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Assassin's Creed
- Price
- $11.56
- EDHREC rank
- #951
Excalibur, Sword of Eden grants the equipped creature +3/+3, indestructible, and the ability to tap or untap any permanent — a toolbox of control stapled to a combat pump at just three mana to cast and two to equip. Captain America, First Avenger is the natural home, but any commander that wants to protect a key creature and generate tempo with tap/untap effects will find this equipment doing serious work.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Captain America, First Avenger
Captain America, First Avenger is built around the Adamantine counter and combat triggers, and Excalibur, Sword of Eden delivers exactly what the deck needs: indestructible protection to ensure he connects every turn, plus the tap/untap ability to neutralize blockers or threaten any permanent on the board.
Ratonhnhaké꞉ton
Ratonhnhaké꞉ton rewards connecting with combat damage, and Excalibur, Sword of Eden clears the path by tapping down blockers before swinging while keeping the commander alive through indestructible.
Lara Croft, Tomb Raider
Lara Croft, Tomb Raider wants to connect with multiple permanents in play, and Excalibur, Sword of Eden's tap ability functions as both evasion insurance and a way to activate or reset key artifacts and utility permanents mid-combat.
Tetsuo, Imperial Champion
Tetsuo, Imperial Champion needs to stay alive long enough to fire his activated ability, and Excalibur, Sword of Eden's indestructible grant makes him reliably untouchable in combat while the tap/untap rider extends his reach to threats outside combat.
Basim Ibn Ishaq
Basim Ibn Ishaq's triggered abilities depend on creatures dying to his damage, and Excalibur, Sword of Eden ensures those triggers resolve by protecting him through blocks and removing key defensive permanents with the tap ability.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Excalibur, Sword of Eden is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but its design clearly targets the Commander table. In Commander, a three-mana cast with a two-mana equip is competitive for an equipment that provides indestructible and a repeatable tap/untap effect — both of which scale well in a multiplayer game where you need to protect your commander across multiple turns and interact with a wider board. In Legacy and Vintage, the equip cost and sorcery-speed nature of the tap ability are too slow against the format's pace, and the effect doesn't close games the way those formats demand. Modern could find niche use in creature-heavy midrange or Voltron-adjacent shells, but again the speed tax is real. Excalibur, Sword of Eden is a Commander card first, and its stats hold up firmly in that context.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
If the tap/untap ability is the draw, Maze of Ith and Reconnaissance cover the defensive angle for less but don't grant the stat boost. For the indestructible-plus-power combination, Swiftfoot Boots handles protection at under a dollar but stops at hexproof with no pump — you're trading the tap-engine and the +3/+3 for speed and price, which is a meaningful downgrade if your commander relies on either the size or the board interaction that Excalibur, Sword of Eden brings.
Price Context
Current price
$11.56 mid tier
At $11.56, Excalibur, Sword of Eden sits in mid-tier equipment territory — more than budget staples but well below the marquee swords like Sword of Feast and Famine. Given its narrow Commander-first appeal and its origin in a licensed crossover set, demand is concentrated in specific decks rather than broad, which means the price is likely to track closely with the popularity of Captain America, First Avenger and similar commanders rather than appreciate broadly.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.