Moonsilver Spear
Artifact — Equipment
Equipped creature has first strike.
Whenever equipped creature attacks, create a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying.
Equip 
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Commander 2014
- Price
- $0.68
- EDHREC rank
- #6427
Moonsilver Spear turns every attack into an Angel factory — equip it once and each swing adds a 4/4 flier to the board, which is a genuine late-game closer. The catch is the cost: four mana to cast and four more to equip makes this a turn-eight play in most lists, and that lag kills it outside dedicated equipment shells. Galea, Kindler of Hope sidesteps that tax entirely, playing it off the top for free and attaching it without spending an equip activation.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Galea, Kindler of Hope
Galea, Kindler of Hope lets you cast Moonsilver Spear directly from the top of your library and attach it to Galea for free, collapsing an eight-mana setup into a zero-mana bonus on an already-live equipment.
Giada, Font of Hope
Giada, Font of Hope runs Moonsilver Spear as an Angel tribal engine — every combat step produces another body that Giada immediately buffs with a +1/+1 counter, snowballing a board faster than most white aggro plans.
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 |
Moonsilver Spear is a Commander card — full stop. The format's longer games give it the runway it needs to pay off an eight-mana total investment, and multiplayer combat means you're generating an Angel every attack step against multiple opponents. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but unplayable; those formats end before the equip cost is even relevant. Oathbreaker sits in the middle: faster than Commander but still singleton, so if your planeswalker is equipment-adjacent the Spear can find a home, though the tempo hit is harder to absorb.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.68 bulk tier
At $0.68, Moonsilver Spear is firmly bulk — you can pick up copies without a second thought. Demand is narrow enough that the price has nowhere to go; it's a Commander-only card with a steep equip cost, which keeps it out of the high-volume equipment staple tier.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.