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Hankyu

Artifact — Equipment

Equipped creature has "{T}: Put an aim counter on Hankyu" and "{T}, Remove all aim counters from Hankyu: This creature deals damage to any target equal to the number of aim counters removed this way."
Equip {4} ({4}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

CMC
1
Mana cost
{1}
Color identity
C
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Champions of Kamigawa
Price
$0.17
EDHREC rank
#20930
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Hankyu card art
Hankyu takes three tap activations to deal a single point of damage — normally unplayable, but Cacophodon turns each untap trigger into a free activation chain that can machine-gun a table. Outside that specific combo context, it's a bulk rare that does almost nothing.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Hankyu is a Commander card in the narrowest sense: the format's longer games and untap-abuse commanders are the only environment where accumulating three loyalty counters on a one-mana artifact is ever worth the setup. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal and irrelevant — faster, more powerful equipment exists at every price point. Modern sees it just as rarely for the same reason. Commander is where Hankyu occasionally earns a slot, and even there only in decks built around tap-untap loops or ping synergies.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.17 bulk tier

At $0.17, Hankyu is deep bulk — the kind of card that costs more to ship than to buy. Don't expect that to change; its narrow combo role keeps casual demand low and reprint risk is essentially zero at this price floor.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.