Search for Dagger
Enchantment
Whenever your commander enters or attacks, look at the top six cards of your library. You may reveal a legendary creature card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Final Fantasy Commander
- Price
- $4.33
- EDHREC rank
- #16967
Search for Dagger tutors up a Cursed Blade-type Equipment on its first chapter, then attaches it for free on the third — meaningful on-board progress spread across three turns. The cost is exactly that: three turns, making it one of the slowest tutor-plus-equip lines in Commander.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Search for Dagger occupies a narrow lane: Equipment-tribal or Voltron strategies that can tolerate a three-turn saga and want redundant access to specific weapons. It's legal in Legacy and Vintage but sees no meaningful play there — those formats move far too fast for a three-chapter saga that ends with a single Equipment attachment. The real home is Commander, where slower game states are common and the guaranteed tutor-plus-equip payoff survives long enough to matter.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$4.33 cheap tier
At $4.33, Search for Dagger sits in the cheap tier but near the top of it — a notable premium for a niche saga that competes with faster Equipment tutors. The price reflects low print volume more than widespread demand, so it holds as long as Equipment commanders stay popular but is unlikely to climb without a reprint pressure or a breakout Voltron strategy.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.