Sharpened Pitchfork
Artifact — Equipment
Equipped creature has first strike.
As long as equipped creature is a Human, it gets +1/+1.
Equip 
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Duel Decks: Blessed vs. Cursed
- Price
- $0.18
- EDHREC rank
- #20515
Sharpened Pitchfork grants the equipped creature +1/+0 and first strike for one mana to cast and one to equip, but the relevant line is that it untaps its controller's lands whenever the equipped creature deals combat damage to a player. That triggered untap effect is the entire reason to run it — the stat boost is incidental.
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 |
Commander is where Sharpened Pitchfork actually has a home, specifically in combat-centric decks that want to chain spells or activate abilities mid-attack — the untap trigger converts a swinging creature into a mana engine. Legacy and Vintage are legal but have no interest in a one-mana equipment that generates incremental value; those formats end games before the trigger fires twice. Modern is similarly too fast and too focused for this effect to matter. Sharpened Pitchfork is a Commander card wearing a multi-format legal badge.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.18 bulk tier
At $0.18, Sharpened Pitchfork is deep bulk — the kind of card you pick out of a common box rather than order individually. The price is stable at the floor; there's no meaningful demand driving it up, but the effect is niche enough that it won't spike without a broken commander printing that cares specifically about untapping lands on damage.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.