Hamato Ninpō
Instant
Hamato Ninpō deals 4 damage to target attacking or blocking creature.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Eternal
- Price
- $0.28
- EDHREC rank
- #29330
Hamato Ninpō turns every ninjutsu activation into a free card — the more ninjas you're already moving in and out of combat, the more it snowballs. Four mana to cast is a real ask, but once it's on the board it pays for itself in a single swing.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is the natural home for Hamato Ninpō — tribal ninja decks built around Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow or Satoru Umezawa trigger ninjutsu constantly, and every activation draws a card without spending additional resources. Pauper technically allows it, but the format lacks the density of ninja synergies to make it worth a slot. Legacy and Vintage are legal but uninterested; the effect is too incremental and the setup too tribal-specific for those formats' game plans. Oathbreaker follows the same logic as Commander on a smaller scale — playable in a dedicated ninja shell, irrelevant outside it.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.28 bulk tier
At $0.28, Hamato Ninpō is deep bulk — the kind of card you pick up in a lot without noticing. The price is unlikely to move unless a high-profile ninja commander gets printed that drives demand for every piece of the tribe.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.