Pennon Blade
Artifact — Equipment
Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each creature you control.
Equip 
(: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Rise of the Eldrazi
- Price
- $0.22
- EDHREC rank
- #14390
Pennon Blade turns any creature-heavy board into a massive stat buff — equip it to a creature you already control and the power and toughness bonus scales with your entire army. The three-mana equip cost is real, but in token or go-wide strategies it routinely reads as +8/+8 or more for that price.
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 |
Pennon Blade is a Commander card — full stop. In Legacy, Modern, and Vintage, the formats where it's technically legal, the competition for equipment slots is fierce and nothing about Pennon Blade clears the bar over Umezawa's Jitte or Sword of Fire and Ice. In Commander, go-wide strategies built around token generation or creature-flooding commanders give Pennon Blade a genuine home: the bonus scales with your board rather than a fixed number, which means it gets better the further ahead you are. The three-mana equip cost is the main friction point even in Commander, but at a table where combat is the primary win condition and you're regularly swinging with ten or more creatures, that cost is easy to justify.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.22 bulk tier
At $0.22, Pennon Blade is deep bulk — easy to pick up as a throw-in or bin find without any financial hesitation. It's unlikely to appreciate meaningfully given its narrow application, but the low floor means there's essentially no risk in slotting it into any go-wide Commander list that wants it.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.