Quick-Draw Katana
Artifact — Equipment
During your turn, equipped creature gets +2/+0 and has first strike. (It deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)
Equip 
(: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Foundations
- Price
- $0.20
- EDHREC rank
- #8448
Quick-Draw Katana gives a creature double strike and first strike simultaneously, which means a single attacker hits twice at first-strike damage before blockers deal back — that's a meaningful combat swing for one equip mana. Raiyuu, Storm's Edge decks are the obvious home, where stacking that effect on a solo attacker turns each combat into disproportionate damage output.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Raiyuu, Storm's Edge
Raiyuu, Storm's Edge triggers an additional combat step whenever a Samurai or Warrior attacks alone, and Quick-Draw Katana's double strike means that lone attacker punches twice per combat phase — stack enough of those and the game ends before opponents stabilize.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Quick-Draw Katana is a Commander card almost exclusively — the effect is strong in a format where a single evasive threat can close games over multiple turns, especially in Samurai and Warrior tribal builds. In competitive constructed formats like Modern or Pioneer, a two-mana equipment that doesn't replace itself and lacks immediate board impact doesn't clear the bar when more efficient options exist. Pauper is where budget aggro players might experiment, but even there the equip cost competes poorly against commons that generate card advantage. In Legacy and Vintage, it doesn't register.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.20 bulk tier
At $0.20, Quick-Draw Katana sits firmly in bulk territory, which is appropriate given its narrow Commander application. It's unlikely to appreciate — bulk equipment without broad format presence rarely does — but at that price, slotting it into a Raiyuu, Storm's Edge build costs nothing meaningful.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.