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Stalactite Dagger

Artifact — Equipment

When this Equipment enters, create a 1/1 colorless Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. (It's every creature type.)
Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and is all creature types.
Equip {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

CMC
2
Mana cost
{2}
Color identity
C
Rarity
common
Set
Lorwyn Eclipsed
Price
$0.25
EDHREC rank
#12027
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Stalactite Dagger card art
Stalactite Dagger makes any Dwarf that wears it a Treasure-generating machine the moment it attacks, and equipping it to your commander costs nothing. In Magda, Brazen Outlaw decks, that free equip cost is the entire point — Magda, Brazen Outlaw taps for Treasures already, and the Dagger turns every other Dwarf into a secondary engine feeding the same combo.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Magda, Brazen Outlaw

Magda, Brazen Outlaw

20.1% of decks · synergy 0.19

Stalactite Dagger is a staple in Magda, Brazen Outlaw because the free equip cost means every Dwarf you play immediately contributes to Treasure count without spending a mana — accelerating the five-Treasure threshold that lets Magda fetch Dragons or Artifacts straight from your library.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard legal
vintage legal
pauper legal
oathbreaker legal

Stalactite Dagger is legal everywhere but only matters in one place: Commander. The free equip cost on Dwarves is too slow and too narrow to compete in Modern, Pioneer, or Legacy, where one-card payoffs need to win the game rather than accelerate a tribal synergy. In Pauper it's a fine common but still lacks the critical mass of Dwarves to justify a slot. Commander is where the tribal density and slower clock let the Dagger pay for itself many times over — specifically in Magda, Brazen Outlaw, where it shows up in roughly 20% of registered lists.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.25 bulk tier

At $0.25, Stalactite Dagger is deep bulk — a throw-in at any shop or the cheapest line item in a singles order. Bulk rares and commons with narrow tribal applications don't typically climb in price, so pick it up for the Magda deck and don't think about it again.

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