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Heirloom Blade

Artifact — Equipment

Equipped creature gets +3/+1.
Whenever equipped creature dies, you may reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a creature card that shares a creature type with it. Put that card into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Equip {1}

CMC
3
Mana cost
{3}
Color identity
C
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Treasure Chest
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#3690
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Heirloom Blade card art
Heirloom Blade turns every creature death into a free tutor-to-hand, keeping your hand full as long as you're playing a tribal or creature-dense strategy. The three-mana equip cost and one-mana equip are both reasonable, but the real competition is Deathrender — which puts the creature directly onto the battlefield — so the choice between them comes down to whether you need the ETB trigger or just the card advantage; in Éowyn, Shieldmaiden builds that care about humans and warriors entering play, Heirloom Blade is the right call.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Éowyn, Shieldmaiden

Éowyn, Shieldmaiden

25.6% of decks · synergy 0.24

Éowyn, Shieldmaiden's ability to create tokens and reward creature deaths maps perfectly onto what Heirloom Blade does — every warrior or human that dies replaces itself, turning her combat-heavy gameplan into a self-sustaining engine.

03
Syrix, Carrier of the Flame

Syrix, Carrier of the Flame

19.6% of decks · synergy 0.19

Syrix, Carrier of the Flame triggers off Phoenix deaths and wants to recast them repeatedly, and Heirloom Blade slots in as the redundant draw piece that finds the next Phoenix whenever one hits the graveyard before it can recur.

04
Arahbo, Roar of the World

Arahbo, Roar of the World

18.8% of decks · synergy 0.18

Arahbo, Roar of the World runs a lean Cat tribal package where losing any individual piece hurts, and Heirloom Blade acts as insurance — the equipped Cat dies, you immediately find the next Cat to carry the blade.

05
Anowon, the Ruin Thief

Anowon, the Ruin Thief

17.1% of decks · synergy 0.17

Anowon, the Ruin Thief mills opponents and attacks with Rogues, and Heirloom Blade keeps the attacking Rogue count high by replacing each creature lost to blockers or removal with the next Rogue off the top.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Heirloom Blade is a Commander card through and through — the death-replacement trigger is slow and cumulative, which fits the long game of a 100-card multiplayer format far better than the tight, linear games of Legacy or Vintage where it's technically legal but essentially irrelevant. In Commander, it shines in tribal decks where every creature shares a type with a dozen others in the deck, maximizing the hit rate on the trigger. Oathbreaker is the only other format worth mentioning, and even there it depends entirely on whether your signature spell or planeswalker generates a creature-dense board. Modern, Pioneer, Standard, and Pauper are all off the table, which is fitting — two-for-ones that take this long to pay off don't survive in competitive 60-card environments.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

unknown tier

Pricing data for Heirloom Blade isn't available at the moment, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the current market rate. Historically it has floated in the budget-to-midrange equipment range, which makes it an easy pickup for any tribal Commander deck that doesn't already own one.

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