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Shuko

Artifact — Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+0.
Equip {0} ({0}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

CMC
1
Mana cost
{1}
Color identity
C
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Betrayers of Kamigawa
Price
$1.52
EDHREC rank
#11870
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Shuko card art
Shuko is a zero-equip-cost Equipment that lets you bounce a single +1/+1 boost across your whole battlefield for free, and that zero equip cost is the entire reason it exists in competitive lists. Valduk, Keeper of the Flame treats it as a token engine — equip, trigger, pass to next creature, trigger again — and Monk Gyatso turns the free reattachment into a repeatable damage outlet.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Valduk, Keeper of the Flame

Valduk, Keeper of the Flame

29.9% of decks · synergy 0.30

Shuko's zero equip cost means every creature Valduk, Keeper of the Flame controls can trigger his ability in the same turn for no mana, generating a stack of Elemental tokens limited only by how many creatures you have to equip through.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Shuko's home is Commander, where the zero equip cost enables combo lines that would be too slow or too narrow to matter elsewhere. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but competes in formats where free equip on a +1/+1 pump is simply not a threat — it sees no meaningful play there. Modern offers the same story: the card is legal, but no competitive shell wants what it does. Commander is where the math works, specifically in Equipment-matters and token-doubling builds where the ability to equip for free on every creature every turn generates real, scalable value.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$1.52 cheap tier

At $1.52, Shuko sits squarely in the cheap tier — easy to acquire and unlikely to spike unless a new Commander combo piece pushes the zero-equip-cost synergy into wider play. It's a stable pickup with no pressure to move quickly.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.