Hand of Honor
Creature — Human Samurai
Protection from black
Bushido 1 (Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Saviors of Kamigawa
- Price
- $0.77
- EDHREC rank
- #18054
Hand of Honor is a 2/2 first striker with protection from black for two mana — a clean, efficient body that dodges the most common removal color in Commander. It's a fine role-player in white Samurai tribal but has no business outside that narrow context.
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 |
Hand of Honor sees essentially no competitive play in Legacy or Modern, where a vanilla-ish 2/2 with situational protection doesn't clear the bar against the threats and interaction those formats demand. In Commander, Hand of Honor earns a slot exclusively in Samurai tribal builds, where the creature type matters and the first strike plus protection from black punishes black-heavy pods. Outside tribal, it's outclassed by every other two-drop in white's arsenal.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.77 bulk tier
At $0.77, Hand of Honor is deep bulk — cheap enough that picking it up for a Samurai deck costs nothing meaningful. Don't expect the price to move; tribal staples that aren't format-legal in eternal formats have no pressure pushing them up.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.