No-Dachi
Artifact — Equipment
Equipped creature gets +2/+0 and has first strike.
Equip 
(: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Champions of Kamigawa
- Price
- $0.31
- EDHREC rank
- #18977
No-Dachi is a two-mana Equipment that grants first strike and +2/+0 — both relevant keywords that let an equipped creature trade up or push through blockers before they can respond. The equip cost is also two, so the total investment is four mana the first time, which is steep for an effect you can find cheaper elsewhere.
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 |
In Commander, No-Dachi finds its home almost exclusively in Equipment-focused or Voltron builds, where the card-type matters as much as the effect and you're already running Sram, Senior Edificer or Puresteel Paladin to draw off each Equipment you play. In Legacy and Vintage it simply doesn't compete — Umezawa's Jitte and Sword of Fire and Ice set the bar, and No-Dachi's stats don't come close. Modern has access to the same better options plus a faster clock that makes a four-mana total investment unplayable outside dedicated Equipment shells. No-Dachi is a Commander card through and through, and even there it's a budget role-player rather than a first pick.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.31 bulk tier
At $0.31, No-Dachi is deep bulk — you're picking this out of a dollar box, not tracking it on a buylist. The price is stable at the floor and unlikely to move; it's a functional uncommon with no spike potential.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.