Hedron Matrix
Artifact — Equipment
Equipped creature gets +X/+X, where X is its mana value.
Equip
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Conspiracy: Take the Crown
- Price
- $0.38
- EDHREC rank
- #16394
Hedron Matrix turns any creature's power into equal toughness — slap it on a 10/1 and you have a 10/10 for four mana total. It's a niche buff that only matters on lopsided stat creatures, which keeps it out of most lists.
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 |
Hedron Matrix is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it sees essentially no competitive play in any of them. In Commander it finds a home on high-power-low-toughness creatures — Phyrexian Dreadnought, Shifting Wall, or similar — where the toughness gap is large enough to matter. Legacy and Modern have faster, more efficient equipment that renders it irrelevant at those tables. Oathbreaker is where it could show up as a novelty in go-wide or voltron shells, but the four-mana equip cost is a real ceiling even there.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.38 bulk tier
At $0.38, Hedron Matrix is deep bulk — the price reflects narrow demand and wide availability. It won't climb unless a new creature with absurd power-to-toughness skew breaks into the format and makes this the go-to fix.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.