Pippin's Bravery
Instant
You may sacrifice a Food. If you do, target creature gets +4/+4 until end of turn. Otherwise, that creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth
- Price
- $0.23
- EDHREC rank
- #12447
Pippin's Bravery gives your whole team +2/+2 and vigilance until end of turn — that's a combat swing that closes games or survives alpha strikes. The Cabbage Merchant decks want it badly, and at one white mana it's nearly free to hold up.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
The Cabbage Merchant
The Cabbage Merchant churns out a crowd of small Food-token-adjacent creatures, and Pippin's Bravery turns that board into a real threat in a single attack step — the +2/+2 bonus stacks across every token at once, which is exactly the payoff a go-wide engine needs.
Samwise Gamgee
Samwise Gamgee builds wide on the back of Food and nontoken creatures entering the battlefield, and Pippin's Bravery converts that incremental value into a combat blowout — vigilance lets the team attack and still hold back, which matters in a four-player game where you can't afford to tap out.
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 |
In Commander, Pippin's Bravery is a one-mana pump spell that scales with every creature on your board, which makes it strictly better the wider your strategy runs. Pauper is where it has the most competitive footing — token and go-wide strategies at common rarity rarely get anthem effects this cheap, and the vigilance clause is a genuine upside rather than a footnote. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but irrelevant; those formats want interaction, not combat tricks. Modern has pushed pump spells hard enough that Pippin's Bravery is barely on the radar outside flavor-forward builds.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.23 bulk tier
At $0.23, Pippin's Bravery is deep bulk — the kind of card you pick up as a throw-in and never think about again. It won't appreciate; the Lord of the Rings set flooded the market and this is a limited-appeal card in a wide print run.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.