Honed Khopesh
Artifact — Equipment
Equipped creature gets +1/+1.
Equip (
: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Amonkhet
- Price
- $0.08
- EDHREC rank
- #21208
Honed Khopesh enters tapped, equips for one mana, and grants +1/+1 — the total investment is three mana for a stat bump that most decks outgrow by turn three. It's a bulk common that earns a slot only in the narrowest of Equipment-count or Warrior-tribal strategies.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Honed Khopesh is legal across Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but sees meaningful play in almost none of them. In Pauper, common-legal Equipment is a real category, but the enters-tapped clause kills any tempo argument here. In Commander, where the bar for Equipment is already set by zero-equip-cost staples, Honed Khopesh competes for slots it rarely wins — only dedicated Equipment commanders counting artifacts for value have any reason to run it. Everywhere else, it's outclassed before it untaps.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.08 bulk tier
At $0.08, Honed Khopesh sits firmly in bulk territory — the kind of card that fills a draft chaff box, not a trade binder. That price reflects demand accurately, so don't expect movement in either direction.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.