Leech Gauntlet
Artifact Creature — Equipment Leech
Lifelink
Equipped creature has lifelink.
Reconfigure 
(: Attach to target creature you control; or unattach from a creature. Reconfigure only as a sorcery. While attached, this isn't a creature.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty
- Price
- $0.25
- EDHREC rank
- #15195
Leech Gauntlet drains life from your opponents on each attack, stacking up incremental advantage without requiring any setup beyond equipping. The cost — both mana and equip — makes it a fringe inclusion, only worth the slot in decks that attack repeatedly and care about life totals.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Leech Gauntlet is legal across Constructed formats but sees essentially no play outside Commander, where the slower pace makes incremental life drain more meaningful. In Commander, it fits narrow niches: aristocrats-adjacent builds, lifelink-matters decks, or voltron commanders that can recoup the equip cost through repeated attacks. Competitive Constructed formats have no patience for a three-mana artifact that drains one life per attack — the rate is simply too slow against efficient threats.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.25 bulk tier
At $0.25, Leech Gauntlet is deep bulk — the kind of card you pull from a box, not a store. That price is stable by definition; there's no demand driver that would push it meaningfully higher.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.