Strider Harness
Artifact — Equipment
Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has haste.
Equip 
(: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Oath of the Gatewatch
- Price
- $0.08
- EDHREC rank
- #17076
Strider Harness equips for one mana and grants both +1/+1 and haste — three mana total to suit up any creature and swing immediately. It's a fine enabler in decks that need haste on a budget, but three mana to cast plus one to equip means it competes with better options at almost every price point.
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, Strider Harness fills exactly one role: budget haste enabler for commanders that need to attack or activate immediately. Lightning Greaves and Swiftfoot Boots do it better — zero equip cost and protection attached — so Strider Harness lands in the fourth or fifth slot when those are already in the deck. In Pauper, the common restriction makes it a real consideration for equipment-matters builds, where the +1/+1 body bonus adds marginal value in a creature-centric format. In competitive formats like Modern and Legacy, it sees no play — three total mana for a do-nothing artifact that doesn't interact with the stack is unacceptable at those power levels.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.08 bulk tier
At $0.08, Strider Harness is pure bulk — the kind of card you pull from a common box without spending anything. It holds essentially no financial value, but as a functional piece in a $20 Commander build, the price is irrelevant.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.