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Hero's Blade

Artifact — Equipment

Equipped creature gets +3/+2.
Whenever a legendary creature you control enters, you may attach this Equipment to it.
Equip {4} ({4}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

CMC
2
Mana cost
{2}
Color identity
C
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Commander Legends
Price
$0.16
EDHREC rank
#1960
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Hero's Blade card art
Hero's Blade enters, equips for free to any legendary creature you control, and hands them +3/+2 — that's a meaningful stat pump with zero activation cost the turn it lands. Vivi Ornitier and Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER are the poster children here, but any legendary-heavy build gets immediate, no-mana-required value from a three-mana artifact.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER

Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER

53.0% of decks · synergy 0.49

Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER attacks to generate Material counters and convert them into spells, so the free +3/+2 equip from Hero's Blade translates directly into faster kills and more relevant attacks — over half of all Cloud decks run it for exactly that reason.

05
Wyleth, Soul of Steel

Wyleth, Soul of Steel

39.3% of decks · synergy 0.36

Wyleth, Soul of Steel draws a card for each Equipment and Aura attached to him when he attacks, making Hero's Blade a cantrip-adjacent piece — it auto-equips, boosts his power for the attack trigger, and costs nothing beyond the initial cast.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Hero's Blade is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it only matters in Commander. In every 60-card format the free-equip clause requires a legendary creature in play, and those formats don't reliably center on one, so a three-mana artifact that gives +3/+2 with conditional free equip is too slow and too narrow to compete with purpose-built Equipment. Commander is the one format where your commander is always a legendary creature waiting to receive it, turning the auto-equip into a guaranteed, repeatable effect every time Hero's Blade or your commander re-enters the battlefield.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.16 bulk tier

At $0.16, Hero's Blade is firmly bulk — the kind of card you pull from a common box rather than buy outright. There's no meaningful price floor to protect here; it's an easy inclusion that costs essentially nothing, and that's the whole pitch.

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