Lion Heart
Artifact — Equipment
When this Equipment enters, it deals 2 damage to any target.
Equipped creature gets +2/+1.
Equip 
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Final Fantasy
- Price
- $0.14
- EDHREC rank
- #14014
Lion Heart enters and immediately hands you a token and a life buffer — the on-board presence is real for one mana. Cloud, Planet's Champion is the reason to care: Lion Heart's token slots directly into the Limit Break counter engine, making this a ritual piece rather than filler.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Cloud, Planet's Champion
Cloud, Planet's Champion wants cheap creatures that generate tokens or bodies to stack Limit Break counters, and Lion Heart delivers both a caster trigger and a token for one mana — two counters worth of progress for the cost of a cantrip spell.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Lion Heart is a role-player rather than a staple — it earns its slot specifically in Cloud, Planet's Champion builds and token-count synergy shells, not as a generic inclusion. Competitive formats like Modern and Legacy have no interest in a one-mana 1/1 lifelink token generator with no immediate board impact beyond that. Pioneer and Standard could theoretically use it in a lifegain payoff shell, but the effect is too low-impact to compete for slots in those 60-card formats where every card needs to pull harder weight. Oathbreaker mirrors Commander in that Lion Heart is a synergy piece first — if your planeswalker and signature spell reward cheap token generation, it fits; otherwise it doesn't.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.14 bulk tier
At $0.14, Lion Heart is deep bulk — buy a playset for the price of a single sleeve. Bulk commons and uncommons at this price point rarely hold or climb unless they land in a breakout Standard deck, so treat it as a freely accessible synergy piece rather than a spec.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.