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Trusty Boomerang

Artifact — Equipment

Equipped creature has "{1}, {T}: Tap target creature. Return Trusty Boomerang to its owner's hand."
Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

CMC
1
Mana cost
{1}
Color identity
C
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Avatar: The Last Airbender
Price
$0.14
EDHREC rank
#14920
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Trusty Boomerang card art
Trusty Boomerang bounces a permanent and replaces itself — repeatable bounce on an equipment that Sokka and Suki can recur for free is the entire reason this card exists. Outside of those two commanders, it's a narrow role-player; inside them, it's a engine piece.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Sokka and Suki

Sokka and Suki

36.0% of decks · synergy 0.34

Sokka and Suki turns Trusty Boomerang into a recurring bounce engine — every time they attack, you can reattach the Boomerang, fire off another bounce trigger, and keep opponents off their best permanents indefinitely.

02
Sokka, Tenacious Tactician

Sokka, Tenacious Tactician

15.4% of decks · synergy 0.14

Sokka, Tenacious Tactician cares about equipment entering and dealing combat damage, and Trusty Boomerang's attach-to-bounce loop feeds both axes, letting Sokka generate value while controlling the board.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

In Commander, Trusty Boomerang is a niche card with a clear home — it earns its slot in Sokka-themed builds and almost nowhere else. In competitive 1v1 formats like Modern and Pioneer, a two-mana equipment that bounces one permanent once is simply too slow and low-impact to see meaningful play. Legacy and Vintage demand far more from their two-drop slots. Standard is the one context where it might occasionally surface as a tempo play in an aggressive equipment shell, but even there it's fringe.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.14 bulk tier

At $0.14, Trusty Boomerang is deep bulk — easy to pick up as a throw-in on any order. Bulk equipment with narrow synergy rarely appreciates, so treat this as a cheap role-player rather than a spec.

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