Hexplate Wallbreaker
Artifact — Equipment
For Mirrodin! (When this Equipment enters, create a 2/2 red Rebel creature token, then attach this to it.)
Equipped creature gets +2/+2.
Whenever equipped creature attacks, if it's the first combat phase of the turn, untap each attacking creature. After this phase, there is an additional combat phase.
Equip 
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Phyrexia: All Will Be One Commander
- Price
- $7.50
- EDHREC rank
- #3438
Hexplate Wallbreaker gives your attacking creatures double strike for a turn at five mana — that's a potential board-wide damage doubler that can close games from nowhere. Nahiri, Forged in Fury equips it for free off her trigger, which means the five-mana price tag becomes irrelevant the moment she hits the battlefield.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Nahiri, Forged in Fury
Nahiri, Forged in Fury tutors Hexplate Wallbreaker directly onto an attacking creature for free, turning every combat step into a double-strike massacre without spending a single additional mana.
Neyali, Suns' Vanguard
Neyali, Suns' Vanguard copies instants and sorceries whenever tokens attack, and Hexplate Wallbreaker stacks with that offense by ensuring every swinging token hits twice — the combination of double damage and spell copying ends games fast.
Gilgamesh, Master-at-Arms
Gilgamesh, Master-at-Arms cares deeply about equipped creatures attacking, and Hexplate Wallbreaker slots in as a high-impact piece that doubles the damage output of whatever creature is carrying the equipment.
Otharri, Suns' Glory
Otharri, Suns' Glory generates rebel tokens whenever an equipped creature attacks, and Hexplate Wallbreaker's double strike means those triggers are firing off creatures that hit for double — the token army scales out of control quickly.
Sephiroth, Fallen Hero
Sephiroth, Fallen Hero wants to connect with opponents repeatedly to advance his counters plan, and Hexplate Wallbreaker's double strike gives him two chances to trigger on-hit abilities each combat.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Hexplate Wallbreaker actually lives — five mana for a one-turn effect is too slow for Legacy and Vintage, where it's technically legal but never played. In Commander, the math changes: one well-timed activation across several attacking creatures routinely ends the game on the spot, and equipment-centric commanders like Nahiri, Forged in Fury eliminate the casting cost entirely. Oathbreaker is a reasonable home for the same reasons Commander is, provided your signature spell or planeswalker is pushing an aggressive combat plan. Everywhere else, it's not legal and wouldn't see play if it were.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
Temur Battle Rage does the same double-strike-plus-trample job for a single red mana, though it targets one creature instead of the whole board and is gone at end of turn like Hexplate Wallbreaker's effect anyway — it's the strict budget replacement in any single-creature-focused strategy. If you want a repeatable effect closer to what Hexplate Wallbreaker provides, Fireshrieker sits around $0.50 and permanently grants double strike to one creature, trading the board-wide burst for consistent pressure every combat.
Price Context
Current price
$7.50 mid tier
At $7.50, Hexplate Wallbreaker sits in the mid tier — expensive enough to feel like a deliberate include, cheap enough that it belongs in any equipment deck that can use it. It's a build-around staple in Nahiri, Forged in Fury specifically, which keeps demand steady and the price unlikely to crater.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Nahiri, Forged in Fury
- Neyali, Suns' Vanguard
- Gilgamesh, Master-at-Arms
- Otharri, Suns' Glory
- Sephiroth, Fallen Hero
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.