Halfdane
Legendary Creature — Shapeshifter
At the beginning of your upkeep, change Halfdane's base power and toughness to the power and toughness of target creature other than Halfdane until the end of your next upkeep.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BUW
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Masters Edition III
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #27416
Halfdane enters the battlefield and immediately assumes the power and toughness of the most threatening creature an opponent controls — a shapeshifting threat that scales with the table's own power. The catch is a 3-mana blue-white-black body that does nothing without other creatures in play and folds to removal before it ever attacks.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Halfdane is a curiosity — a political tool that mirrors the biggest thing across the table but brings no evasion, no enters-the-battlefield effect, and no protection of its own, making it a fragile answer to a problem that removal handles more reliably. Legacy and Vintage have access to it but creature-based midrange strategies in those formats have moved far past a 3-mana 3/3 that borrows stats. Halfdane is effectively a Commander-only conversation piece, and even there it earns a slot almost exclusively as the general of its own themed build rather than a 99-card inclusion.
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Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data isn't available for Halfdane at the moment, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for current market listings. As an older, narrow card with minimal competitive demand, it typically trades in the bargain-bin range — worth picking up cheaply if you're building around it, but not a card to chase at a premium.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.