Leonin Scimitar
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
- uncommon
- Set
- Salvat 2011
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #19863
Leonin Scimitar is a one-mana equipment that straps +1/+1 onto a creature for one more mana — cheap to cast, cheap to equip, and nothing more. In most decks it's filler, but Valduk, Keeper of the Flame turns every equipped artifact into a 3/1 token, which makes a one-mana equip cost genuinely good.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Valduk, Keeper of the Flame
Valduk, Keeper of the Flame wants to stack as many equipment and auras as possible before attacking, generating a 3/1 haste token for each one — Leonin Scimitar hits both the lowest possible cast cost and a one-mana equip cost, making it one of the easiest ways to pad that token count without spending resources.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Leonin Scimitar is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker. In competitive non-rotating formats, it never sees play — the effect is too small relative to what those formats demand from one-mana slots. Pauper is the one context where cheap equipment counts for something, but even there Leonin Scimitar mostly sits on the fringe unless a specific synergy calls for it. Commander is the primary home, and only in equipment-matters or token-generation shells where the equip cost is what's being optimized, not the +1/+1.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Current pricing data for Leonin Scimitar isn't available in this context — check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the current number. Given the card's age and limited competitive demand, it has historically been a bulk common or uncommon, typically well under a dollar.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.