O-Naginata
Artifact — Equipment
This Equipment can be attached only to a creature with power 3 or greater.
Equipped creature gets +3/+0 and has trample.
Equip 
(: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Double Masters
- Price
- $0.48
- EDHREC rank
- #6993
O-Naginata staples +3/+0 and trample onto any creature with power 3 or greater for a single mana — that's an enormous rate when you're already swinging with something large. Slicer, Hired Muscle is the canonical home: a 4/4 that attacks on every opponent's turn turns one equip into a repeating trample threat across the entire table.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Slicer, Hired Muscle
Slicer, Hired Muscle attacks during every opponent's combat step, and O-Naginata makes each of those swings a 7/4 trampler — opponents burning removal on a shared permanent now have to weigh losing it mid-rotation, which compounds the political pressure Slicer already generates.
Raiyuu, Storm's Edge
Raiyuu, Storm's Edge rewards attacking with exactly one Warrior each combat step, and O-Naginata turns that lone attacker into a trample engine that's harder to chump — the +3/+0 also pushes Raiyuu itself past the threshold to equip for free on re-equip scenarios.
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, O-Naginata earns its slot in any deck whose commander sits at power 3 or higher and wants to push through blockers — the one-mana equip cost is what separates it from slower Equipment that stall in the mid-game. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but competes with a deep Equipment pool and rarely shows up outside of fringe Voltron builds. Modern has the same problem: Colossus Hammer and Shadowspear eat the available Equipment slots, and O-Naginata's narrower power-check condition keeps it on the bench. Its real home is Commander, where a single card turning a commander into an unblockable-adjacent threat for under a dollar of mana is just good value.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.48 bulk tier
At $0.48, O-Naginata is bulk — pick it up without a second thought if the commander qualifies. Bulk Equipment with genuine mechanical upside tends to stay in this range indefinitely, so there's no urgency beyond "do you need it now."
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Sources
Mentioned
- Slicer, Hired Muscle
- Raiyuu, Storm's Edge
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.