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Honor-Worn Shaku

Artifact

{T}: Add {C}.
Tap an untapped legendary permanent you control: Untap this artifact.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{3}
Color identity
C
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Champions of Kamigawa
Price
$2.40
EDHREC rank
#4034
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Honor-Worn Shaku card art
Honor-Worn Shaku taps for one colorless mana, but its real job is converting legendary creatures and planeswalkers into a mana battery — tap a legend you'd be tapping anyway, untap the Shaku, and suddenly you're floating extra mana every turn. Commanders like King Macar, the Gold-Cursed and Commodore Guff both have tap abilities they want to fire repeatedly, which makes Honor-Worn Shaku a genuine engine piece rather than a curiosity.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Commodore Guff

Commodore Guff

50.4% of decks · synergy 0.48

Commodore Guff's static and activated abilities both care about planeswalkers, and Honor-Worn Shaku turns every loyalty-tick into mana — activate a planeswalker, untap the Shaku, and you're accelerating into the next spell on the same turn.

02
Neerdiv, Devious Diver

Neerdiv, Devious Diver

32.8% of decks · synergy 0.32

Neerdiv, Devious Diver cares about tapping and untapping permanents, so Honor-Worn Shaku slots in as both a mana source and a repeatable tap trigger to feed that engine.

03
Norin the Wary

Norin the Wary

26.2% of decks · synergy 0.25

Norin the Wary flickers himself every time a spell is cast or a creature attacks, and Honor-Worn Shaku reads that re-entry as a legendary creature entering — tap it on the way back in, net a mana, repeat every turn.

04
Carth the Lion

Carth the Lion

22.1% of decks · synergy 0.22

Carth the Lion runs a dense planeswalker package, and Honor-Worn Shaku lets those walkers contribute mana the same turn they tick up, compounding the value Carth's loyalty-counter bonus already provides.

05
Shanid, Sleepers' Scourge

Shanid, Sleepers' Scourge

17.3% of decks · synergy 0.17

Shanid, Sleepers' Scourge rewards a high density of legendary permanents with card draw, and Honor-Worn Shaku converts that same legendary density into mana acceleration, pulling double duty in the same shell.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Honor-Worn Shaku is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it's essentially a Commander card — the effect only scales when your board is full of legendary permanents, and no other format naturally supplies that density. In Legacy and Vintage it's theoretically castable but competes with a mana-artifact slot that wants Sol Ring-speed acceleration rather than a conditional untap trigger. Modern is legal on paper, but there's no realistic shell that wants it over faster, unconditional options. Commander is where Honor-Worn Shaku earns its slot: legendary-matters commanders reliably trigger it every turn cycle, and the colorless mana it generates is genuinely incremental advantage in a format where the game goes long.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$2.40 cheap tier

At $2.40, Honor-Worn Shaku sits in the comfortable budget tier — cheap enough to pick up on impulse, and niche enough that the price reflects real demand from Commander players rather than speculative noise. It won't fluctuate much; it's a single-printing casual staple with a loyal audience and no competitive upward pressure.

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