Gate Smasher
Artifact — Equipment
This Equipment can be attached only to a creature with toughness 4 or greater.
Equipped creature gets +3/+0 and has trample.
Equip 
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Dragons of Tarkir
- Price
- $0.15
- EDHREC rank
- #23459
Gate Smasher straps a free +3/+0 and trample onto any creature with toughness 4 or greater — no mana activation required, just equip once and the buff is permanent until it moves. Three mana to cast and three to equip is the real cost, and that price is only worth paying on a creature big enough to close games.
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 |
Gate Smasher is a Commander card through and through — the format's high-toughness staples like Arcades, the Strategist, Doran, the Siege Tower, and defenders-matter builds are exactly where the equip condition stops being a limitation and starts being free value. Outside Commander, Gate Smasher doesn't have a competitive home: Modern, Pioneer, Legacy, and Vintage all move too fast for a six-mana equip-and-attack setup that doesn't generate card advantage. Stick to multiplayer tables where you have the turns to set it up and a fatty worth putting it on.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.15 bulk tier
At $0.15, Gate Smasher is pure bulk — you're paying for cardboard and postage, not the card itself. Bulk rares in narrow roles like this don't appreciate; buy a copy for the deck that wants it and move on.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.