Lizard Blades
Artifact Creature — Equipment Lizard
Double strike
Equipped creature has double strike.
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
- R
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty Promos
- Price
- $3.17
- EDHREC rank
- #1327
Lizard Blades lands as a free, recurrent Double Strike stapled to any creature you want to push through — the Reconfigure cost is real, but the equip-free attach on cast is the entire point. In Tetsuo, Imperial Champion and similar combat-centric commanders, that immediate power boost without paying an equip fee is the difference between threatening the table on turn three and waiting until turn five.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Tetsuo, Imperial Champion
Tetsuo, Imperial Champion wants Double Strike on his commander to double-trigger his instant-speed destroy ability, and Lizard Blades delivers that the turn it enters — no equip cost, no waiting.
Raiyuu, Storm's Edge
Raiyuu, Storm's Edge triggers an additional combat step whenever a Samurai or Warrior attacks alone, and Lizard Blades Reconfigures into a Samurai itself, letting any attacker qualify for that trigger while carrying Double Strike into the extra combat.
Gilgamesh, Master-at-Arms
Gilgamesh, Master-at-Arms rewards attacking with equipped creatures, and Lizard Blades gets onto a creature for free on cast, meaning Gilgamesh sees an equipped attacker the moment the equipment resolves.
Alexios, Deimos of Kosmos
Alexios, Deimos of Kosmos scales off dealing combat damage and controlling attacked creatures, so the Double Strike that Lizard Blades provides effectively doubles his trigger count in a single swing.
Nahiri, Forged in Fury
Nahiri, Forged in Fury can cheat equipment onto attacking creatures, and Lizard Blades is exactly the kind of efficient, combat-relevant equipment she wants to pull off the top — Double Strike alone justifies the slot.
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 |
Commander is the natural home for Lizard Blades: free-attach-on-cast equipment is a known engine piece, and doubling a commander's power or combat trigger count is universally valuable. In Modern and Pioneer it's a fringe consideration for Voltron-adjacent aggro, but dedicated equipment shells already have access to stronger payoffs and rarely need a three-mana piece that can strand itself as a vanilla 2/1. Legacy has the redundancy to ignore it entirely. Lizard Blades is a Commander card through and through — run it when you need Double Strike and can't afford the equip tax of alternatives.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$3.17 cheap tier
At $3.17, Lizard Blades sits in the affordable-staple tier — cheap enough to slot into any equipment build without deliberation. It sees enough play across Samurai, Voltron, and combat-trigger commanders to hold that price point steadily.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Tetsuo, Imperial Champion
- Raiyuu, Storm's Edge
- Gilgamesh, Master-at-Arms
- Alexios, Deimos of Kosmos
- Nahiri, Forged in Fury
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.