Utility Knife
Artifact — Equipment
When this Equipment enters, attach it to target creature you control.
Equipped creature gets +1/+1.
Equip 
(: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Zendikar Rising
- Price
- $0.08
- EDHREC rank
- #19218
Utility Knife is a one-mana artifact that equips for free and grants +1/+1 — the floor is low and the ceiling never gets much higher. It's filler that fills nothing meaningful; nearly every equipment slot in a Commander deck has a better use.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Utility Knife is legal across Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legal doesn't mean playable. In Commander, a +1/+1 buff with no keywords and no secondary effect doesn't move the needle — even aggressive equipment decks like Akiri or Bruenor have dozens of strictly better options at the same price point. In Pauper, where commons compete on raw efficiency, Utility Knife loses to almost every other one-mana equipment in the pool. Across competitive formats like Legacy and Vintage, it simply doesn't exist as a consideration.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.08 bulk tier
At $0.08, Utility Knife is deep bulk — you're not buying it, you're finding it in a trade binder. There's no price floor to fall through and no demand catalyst on the horizon that would change that.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.