Rosethorn Halberd
Artifact — Equipment
When this Equipment enters, attach it to target non-Human creature you control.
Equipped creature gets +2/+1.
Equip 
(: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Jumpstart 2022
- Price
- $0.10
- EDHREC rank
- #22633
Rosethorn Halberd gives a creature +2/+1 and trample for one green mana to equip — solid stats, dirt-cheap activation, and trample on demand is genuinely useful for commanders that want to push damage through. The catch is a three-mana equip cost on replay, which punishes bounce and removal and keeps this out of competitive lists.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Rosethorn Halberd is a budget option for voltron or stompy builds that want trample on their general without spending real resources — the one-mana initial equip is the whole pitch. Competitive tables will ignore it because three mana to re-equip after a board wipe is unacceptable tempo loss. In Pauper, the efficiency bar is higher and dedicated equipment builds rarely want a piece this fragile; better commons exist. Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer have no realistic home for Rosethorn Halberd — those formats demand immediate board impact at this cost, and an equipment that blanks on re-equip doesn't clear that bar.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.10 bulk tier
At $0.10, Rosethorn Halberd is pure bulk — you're paying almost nothing and getting exactly that tier of power level. It holds no financial value and won't appreciate, but the entry cost is low enough that slotting it into a casual Commander list costs less than a sleeve.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.