Sword of Wealth and Power
Artifact — Equipment
Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from instants and from sorceries.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, create a Treasure token. When you next cast an instant or sorcery spell this turn, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.
Equip 
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- The Big Score
- Price
- $29.53
- EDHREC rank
- #2113
Sword of Wealth and Power equips a creature with protection from instants and sorceries, and every time it connects, you copy the next instant or sorcery you cast that turn — card advantage and tempo stapled to a body hitting sideways. The rate is steep at three to equip, but Knuckles the Echidna decks and spellslinger commanders treat that copy trigger as the entire reason the card exists.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Knuckles the Echidna
Knuckles the Echidna rewards connecting creatures with spells-matter payoffs, and Sword of Wealth and Power doubles the output of any instant or sorcery fired after combat — the protection from instants and sorceries also means Knuckles himself swings through most of what opponents point at him.
Tetsuo, Imperial Champion
Tetsuo, Imperial Champion is built to suit up a single creature and punch through, and Sword of Wealth and Power hands Tetsuo protection from the two most common answer types while turning each attack into a free spell copy.
Cloud, Midgar Mercenary
Cloud, Midgar Mercenary wants an equipped attacker who generates value on damage, and Sword of Wealth and Power delivers both a protection suite and a spell-copy trigger that amplifies every pump spell or combat trick cast post-combat.
Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer already threatens to snowball through unblocked attacks, and Sword of Wealth and Power stacks protection from instants and sorceries onto the hardest creature to interact with cleanly — making opposing removal nearly irrelevant while still copying whatever you cast off the stolen mana.
Balan, Wandering Knight
Balan, Wandering Knight can attach every Equipment on the battlefield for two mana, so Sword of Wealth and Power costs nothing extra to get onto him; the protection and copy trigger ride along for free, making it one of the cleaner includes in any Balan build.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Sword of Wealth and Power earns its slot in any deck that reliably attacks with one threat and casts instants or sorceries post-combat — the copy trigger compounds fast in a format where individual spells carry higher stakes. In Modern and Legacy, the three-mana equip cost is punishing in a world of cheap interaction, and dedicated Equipment shells capable of paying that cost are rare enough that the Sword sees minimal competitive play there. Pioneer and Standard offer more forgiving midsized creature builds where the protection from instants and sorceries is genuinely impactful, but the overall tempo cost keeps Sword of Wealth and Power squarely in the casual-to-focused range in those formats rather than a staple. Oathbreaker mirrors the Commander logic — spellslinger planeswalker-commanders who connect once get outsized returns on the copy trigger.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
Runechanter's Pike gives a spellslinger attacker a large power boost for one mana to equip and cares about the same instant-and-sorcery density that Sword of Wealth and Power rewards, though it offers no protection and no copy trigger. Arcane Signet and similar cheap value pieces aside, the honest answer is that no single card replicates both halves of what the Sword does — you can approximate the copy effect with Strionic Resonator or Lithoform Engine and the protection with Swiftfoot Boots, but that's two cards doing the job of one.
Price Context
Current price
$29.53 premium tier
At $29.53, Sword of Wealth and Power sits in the premium Equipment tier alongside the older Mirrodin Swords, priced where it is because the effect is genuinely powerful in Commander and the card is new enough that supply hasn't caught up with demand. Whether the price holds depends on reprint exposure — it's a prime candidate for a precon or Masters set inclusion, so buying in now carries some risk of a correction.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Knuckles the Echidna
- Tetsuo, Imperial Champion
- Cloud, Midgar Mercenary
- Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
- Balan, Wandering Knight
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.