Throwing Knife
Artifact — Equipment
Equipped creature gets +2/+0.
Whenever equipped creature attacks, you may sacrifice this Equipment. If you do, this Equipment deals 2 damage to any target.
Equip 
(: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Magic Origins
- Price
- $0.14
- EDHREC rank
- #26289
Throwing Knife equips for two mana and delivers +2/+0 plus a one-time direct damage trigger when it deals combat damage — decent stats buried under a steep total investment of four mana to cast and attach. The damage rider is cute, but four mana for a fragile, single-use effect is too slow for competitive Commander and too clunky for any format where better equipment exists.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Throwing Knife sits at the bottom of the equipment pile — four total mana to get a creature to swing with it, and the payoff is a small power boost plus a one-shot ping that doesn't even guarantee value if the creature is blocked. Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, and Vintage all have access to equipment so far above this power band that Throwing Knife never sees serious play in any of them. Oathbreaker has the same problem: the format's lower starting life total makes aggression viable, but you want equipment that sticks and scales, not one that disappears after one combat.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.14 bulk tier
At $0.14, Throwing Knife is deep bulk — the kind of card you pull from a draft chaff box without thinking twice. There's no demand driver that would push this price upward, so treat it as a throwaway inclusion at best and a filler rare slot at worst.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.