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Sword of Truth and Justice

Artifact — Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from white and from blue.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on a creature you control, then proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)
Equip {2}

CMC
3
Mana cost
{3}
Color identity
C
Rarity
rare
Set
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Price
—
EDHREC rank
#1644
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Sword of Truth and Justice card art
Sword of Truth and Justice gives the equipped creature protection from white and blue, deals a combat damage trigger that proliferates and adds a +1/+1 counter — an engine that scales with any deck already stacking counters or taking extra combats. The cost is three to cast and two to equip, which is steep enough that you need a real payoff; commanders like Medomai the Ageless and Atreus, Impulsive Son // Kratos, Stoic Father supply exactly that.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Atreus, Impulsive SonKratos, Stoic Father

Atreus, Impulsive Son // Kratos, Stoic Father

33.7% of decks · synergy 0.31

Atreus, Impulsive Son // Kratos, Stoic Father cares about loading up +1/+1 counters to trigger its God power, and Sword of Truth and Justice delivers a free proliferate plus a counter on every swing — two of the three things the deck wants, packed into one piece of Equipment.

03
Omarthis, Ghostfire Initiate

Omarthis, Ghostfire Initiate

31.3% of decks · synergy 0.29

Omarthis, Ghostfire Initiate grows by accumulating +1/+1 counters on colorless creatures, so the guaranteed counter-plus-proliferate from Sword of Truth and Justice doubles as both personal growth and a way to spread counters across the board.

04
Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus

Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus

29.1% of decks · synergy 0.28

Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus doubles proliferate triggers, which means one hit with Sword of Truth and Justice becomes two proliferates — the Sword goes from role-player to core engine in that shell.

05
Tidus, Yuna's Guardian

Tidus, Yuna's Guardian

22.6% of decks · synergy 0.20

Tidus, Yuna's Guardian generates lore counters on Sagas and pushes counter-based synergies, making Sword of Truth and Justice a clean fit: every combat step advances multiple permanent types at once.

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 Truth and Justice earns its keep — proliferate scales with poison counters, planeswalker loyalty, and +1/+1 synergies all at once, and the protection from white and blue blanks the two most common removal colors at a typical table. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but sees no real play; five mana across two activations is too slow for formats where games end on turn two or three. Modern once had fringe Equipment strategies that could house it, but the cost is too high relative to what aggressive Equipment decks actually want. Oathbreaker mirrors the Commander logic — if your signature spell or planeswalker benefits from proliferate, Sword of Truth and Justice is a legitimate include.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

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Pricing data for Sword of Truth and Justice isn't available in the current feed, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for a live quote before buying. Given its consistent inclusion in counter-heavy Commander builds, it tends to hold value in the mid-range Equipment tier — worth picking up if you find it at a reasonable buylist price.

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