Opaline Bracers
Artifact — Equipment
Sunburst (This artifact enters with a charge counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it.)
Equipped creature gets +X/+X, where X is the number of charge counters on this Equipment.
Equip 
(: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Fifth Dawn
- Price
- $0.12
- EDHREC rank
- #25524
Opaline Bracers grants +X/+X where X equals the number of colors in your commander's color identity — on a five-color commander, that's a free +5/+5 stapled to a three-mana equip. The catch is that the bonus only applies if the equipped creature shares a color with your commander, which is almost always true, making this a legitimate threat multiplier in the right shell.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Opaline Bracers is a Commander card through and through — the bonus scales directly off your commander's color identity, a mechanic that only matters in that format. In five-color decks helmed by commanders like Kenrith, the Returned King or The Ur-Dragon, it effectively reads 'equipped creature gets +5/+5 for three mana,' which is competitive with far more expensive Equipment. Outside Commander, the card reads as a vanilla three-mana equip for +1/+1 in mono-color Pauper or Legacy shells, where it sees no meaningful play.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.12 bulk tier
At $0.12, Opaline Bracers is pure bulk — you're picking it up out of a dollar box or a bulk order. The price reflects its narrow design, but in the five-color Commander decks where it actually performs, it punches well above its cost tier.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.