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Sword of Hearth and Home

Artifact — Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from green and from white.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, exile up to one target creature you own, then search your library for a basic land card. Put both cards onto the battlefield under your control, then shuffle.
Equip {2}

CMC
3
Mana cost
{3}
Color identity
C
Rarity
mythic
Set
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Price
—
EDHREC rank
#873
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Sword of Hearth and Home card art
Sword of Hearth and Home is the equipment that replaces itself on every hit — protection plus a land drop plus a flicker, all stapled to a sword that any combat-focused deck wants to strap onto its best attacker. The cost is real: three to equip on top of three to cast means you need a creature worth protecting before this earns its slot. In commanders like Aurelia, the Warleader or Cloud, Midgar Mercenary, where every attack trigger compounds, the payoff is immediate and the math stops being a debate.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Cloud, Midgar Mercenary

Cloud, Midgar Mercenary

53.0% of decks · synergy 0.45

Cloud, Midgar Mercenary flickers a party member on every hit, and Sword of Hearth and Home turns that into a repeatable ETB engine on top of a guaranteed land drop — more than half of Cloud decks include it for exactly that loop.

02
Noctis, Heir Apparent

Noctis, Heir Apparent

38.0% of decks · synergy 0.36

Noctis, Heir Apparent wants to cheat creatures into play and capitalize on their ETBs, and Sword of Hearth and Home delivers a free flicker every combat step, letting Noctis compound value each time his equipped creature connects.

03
Ratonhnhaké꞉ton

Ratonhnhaké꞉ton

34.7% of decks · synergy 0.32

Ratonhnhaké꞉ton attacks and wants to reward doing so with lasting board development, and Sword of Hearth and Home delivers a land and a flicker on each successful hit — raw acceleration that keeps the pressure growing.

04
Syr Gwyn, Hero of Ashvale

Syr Gwyn, Hero of Ashvale

31.6% of decks · synergy 0.29

Syr Gwyn, Hero of Ashvale draws a card whenever an equipped knight attacks, so stacking Sword of Hearth and Home onto any knight in the chain layers a land drop and an ETB trigger on top of that card draw, turning each swinger into a self-replacing resource machine.

05
Deadpool, Trading Card

Deadpool, Trading Card

29.5% of decks · synergy 0.28

Deadpool, Trading Card wants to die and come back, and Sword of Hearth and Home gives him a way to flicker himself out of danger while still swinging in — the protection alone is relevant, and the landfall trigger keeps the engine funded.

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

Commander is where Sword of Hearth and Home does its best work, and the numbers bear that out — ETB creatures are everywhere, landfall payoffs are common, and the protection from green and white shuts off the removal most decks lean on. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but almost never seen; the mana investment is too steep for formats where the game ends before equipment value compounds. Modern could theoretically support it in a value-oriented creature deck, but the same timing problem applies — three-mana equip costs lose races to faster clocks. Oathbreaker is the one other format where Sword of Hearth and Home earns genuine consideration, since the planeswalker-as-commander structure rewards repeated combat triggers and extra land drops.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

3,026 decks
Akki Battle SquadSword of Hearth and Home

Akki Battle SquadSword of Hearth and Home

Infinite combat damage; Infinite combat phases; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite untap of modified creatures you control; Put all basic lands from your library onto the battlefield

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Price Context

Current price

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Pricing data for Sword of Hearth and Home isn't currently available in this snapshot, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for a live number before buying. As a mythic equipment with consistent Commander demand, it rarely sits in bargain bins — expect to pay accordingly if you're picking one up.

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