Master Piandao
Legendary Creature — Human Warrior Ally
First strike
Whenever Master Piandao attacks, look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal an Ally, Equipment, or Lesson card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Avatar: The Last Airbender
- Price
- $0.21
- EDHREC rank
- #9590
Master Piandao puts a free Sharpened Sword token into play every time you cast a Warrior — repeatable, on-board equipment generation that compounds fast in the right shell. The cost is narrow tribal dependency: outside a Warrior-heavy list, it does nothing.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Katara, the Fearless
Katara, the Fearless is built around casting Warriors and rewarding you for it, which means Master Piandao is generating a Sharpened Sword almost every turn — the two cards form the backbone of an equipment-fueled aggro engine.
Sokka and Suki
Sokka and Suki care about equipped creatures and combat advantage, so the free Sharpened Sword tokens Master Piandao produces slot directly into that payoff structure without spending mana or cards.
Sokka, Tenacious Tactician
Sokka, Tenacious Tactician rewards going wide with equipped Warriors, and Master Piandao is one of the cleanest ways to keep every new Warrior threat armed the moment it enters.
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 |
Commander is where Master Piandao belongs — a 100-card singleton format gives Warriors-matter decks enough redundancy to make the token generation feel continuous rather than occasional. In 60-card formats like Modern, Pioneer, and Legacy, the card is legal but occupies no real space; Warrior tribal lacks the critical mass and competitive infrastructure to support a five-mana do-nothing-on-entry creature. Standard legality is technically present but irrelevant at this power level. Oathbreaker could theoretically house it in the right signature-spell shell, but the Commander format is the correct home by a wide margin.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.21 bulk tier
At $0.21, Master Piandao is bulk — easy to pick up as a throw-in or from a dollar bin. Demand is narrow enough that the price is unlikely to climb unless a new marquee Warrior commander creates a buying spike.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.