Hammer of Nazahn
Legendary Artifact — Equipment
Whenever Hammer of Nazahn or another Equipment you control enters, you may attach that Equipment to target creature you control.
Equipped creature gets +2/+0 and has indestructible.
Equip 
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Commander Masters
- Price
- $15.63
- EDHREC rank
- #805
Hammer of Nazahn does two things the moment it hits the battlefield: it auto-equips itself to a creature for free, then grants that creature indestructible and +2/+0, and every Equipment you play afterward gets the same free-attach treatment. In a deck like Tetsuo, Imperial Champion that needs specific Equipment online fast, or on a threat like Apex Altisaur that wants to survive its own triggered combat, that zero-equip cost is the whole game.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Tetsuo, Imperial Champion
Tetsuo, Imperial Champion needs exactly three Equipment attached to deal damage equal to a creature's power and destroy it — Hammer of Nazahn snaps onto him for free the turn it enters, and then makes every subsequent piece free to attach too, collapsing the setup cost of the entire engine.
Amy Rose
Amy Rose cares about Equipment entering and attaching to her, and Hammer of Nazahn triggers that loop the instant it resolves — free self-attachment means she can start generating value on the same turn without spending extra mana on equip costs.
Gilgamesh, Master-at-Arms
Gilgamesh, Master-at-Arms wants to go wide with Equipment on multiple creatures, and Hammer of Nazahn turns every Equipment drop into a free attachment, letting you spread gear across the board without burning your entire turn on equip activations.
Lara Croft, Tomb Raider
Lara Croft, Tomb Raider rewards you for being equipped when you connect in combat, so having Hammer of Nazahn guarantee a free attach the turn each piece enters directly translates into more consistent treasure and card-draw triggers.
Captain America, First Avenger
Captain America, First Avenger builds around Shields and Equipment, and Hammer of Nazahn's blanket free-equip effect means the deck spends far less mana maintaining equipped status and far more mana developing its board.
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 |
Commander is the natural home for Hammer of Nazahn — the free-attach effect compounds over a long game, indestructible on your primary threat matters in a removal-heavy multiplayer environment, and Equipment-centric commanders give it a dedicated support structure. Legacy and Vintage are legal but uninterested; four mana for an Equipment that doesn't win the game immediately is too slow for those formats' threat density, and the equip-cost reduction has no meaningful targets in the decks that dominate those formats. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander sixty-card adjacent format where it's legal and occasionally sees play, specifically in Equipment-based signature spell shells where the free-attach on entry can set up a turn-one-style burst.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
Puresteel Paladin covers the free-equip half of Hammer of Nazahn's text at a fraction of the cost — it requires metalcraft and doesn't grant indestructible, but in a dense Equipment deck it draws cards on top of zeroing out equip costs, which often makes it the better card. Sigarda's Aid is the other angle: it costs one mana and gives every Equipment flash plus a free attach on entry, missing the indestructible buff but costing under a dollar and enabling the same turn-one setup that makes Hammer of Nazahn's auto-attach effect so strong.
Price Context
Current price
$15.63 mid tier
At $15.63, Hammer of Nazahn sits in the mid tier — noticeable on a budget but not a barrier for a focused Equipment build where it's doing real work. The price is stable; it's a Commander-only card with a consistent demand floor from Equipment commanders, but no spike catalyst on the horizon that would move it significantly in either direction.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Apex Altisaur
- Tetsuo, Imperial Champion
- Amy Rose
- Gilgamesh, Master-at-Arms
- Lara Croft, Tomb Raider
- Captain America, First Avenger
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.