Vanquisher's Axe
Artifact — Equipment
Equipped creature gets +2/+0.
Equip 
(: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Dominaria United
- Price
- $0.07
- EDHREC rank
- #20639
Vanquisher's Axe is a three-mana Equipment that puts +3/+0 and trample on a creature for two more mana — five mana total for a pump that leaves no permanent value if the creature dies. Outside of Equipment-matters decks that need raw bulk at common, there are almost always better options.
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 |
Vanquisher's Axe is legal in Commander, Modern, Pioneer, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but it earns a slot in almost none of them. In Commander it's outclassed by Equipment like Shadowspear or Swiftfoot Boots that trade comparable mana for meaningful utility. Pauper is its most credible home, where the common card pool is thin enough that a cheap stat-pump on an aggressive creature can matter. In competitive 60-card formats, five mana across two steps to grant trample is far too slow to register.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.07 bulk tier
At $0.07, Vanquisher's Axe is deep bulk — the kind of card that never leaves the common box. There is no reason to expect the price to move in either direction.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.