Meteoric Mace
Artifact — Equipment
Equipped creature gets +4/+0 and has trample.
Equip 
Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Commander Masters
- Price
- $0.26
- EDHREC rank
- #9165
Meteoric Mace lands as a +3/+3, lifelink, vigilance, trample Equipment for zero equip cost once it cascades into play — that's a massive stat dump for free. The catch is a seven-mana cast cost, which means Averna, the Chaos Bloom is almost the entire reason this card is good.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Averna, the Chaos Bloom
Averna, the Chaos Bloom cascades on every cycle, and Meteoric Mace is exactly the kind of high-MV spell you want cascading into — it hits the battlefield with its equip already paid, so Averna turns a free cast into an immediate +3/+3, lifelink, vigilance, trample on any creature.
Laelia, the Blade Reforged
Laelia, the Blade Reforged exiles cards and casts them for free off the top, which is precisely how Meteoric Mace dodges its punishing seven-mana sticker price — Laelia turns it into a free Equipment drop that buffs the already-growing Laelia for a lethal swing.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Meteoric Mace is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but competitive non-rotating formats have no interest in a seven-mana Equipment when cheaper, more efficient options exist. Commander is where Meteoric Mace actually lives — specifically in cascade and exile-cast shells where the mana cost is never paid fairly. Outside of those strategies, even in Commander, you'd almost never hardcast it.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.26 bulk tier
At $0.26, Meteoric Mace is deep bulk — you'll find it in any commons box. It's niche enough that demand won't move the price, but cheap enough that there's no reason not to slot it into an Averna or Laelia build where it overperforms.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Averna, the Chaos Bloom
- Laelia, the Blade Reforged
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.