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Vanquisher's Banner

Artifact

As this artifact enters, choose a creature type.
Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1.
Whenever you cast a creature spell of the chosen type, draw a card.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{5}
Color identity
C
Rarity
special
Set
Time Spiral Remastered
Price
$5.34
EDHREC rank
#348
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Vanquisher's Banner card art
Vanquisher's Banner drops into any tribal deck and immediately does two things: it pumps every creature you already have and turns every new one into a free card draw. Five mana is the honest cost for that much sustained value, and in a format where tribal engines are expected to carry games, commanders like Ganax, Astral Hunter and Éowyn, Shieldmaiden both run it above 60% inclusion for a reason.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Éowyn, Shieldmaiden

Éowyn, Shieldmaiden

64.8% of decks · synergy 0.61

Éowyn, Shieldmaiden generates a stream of Human tokens whenever a nontoken Human attacks, so Vanquisher's Banner turns that stream into a card engine — each new Human that enters draws a card and swings harder.

03
Sidar Jabari of Zhalfir

Sidar Jabari of Zhalfir

50.3% of decks · synergy 0.47

Sidar Jabari of Zhalfir fills the board with Knights, and Vanquisher's Banner converts that density into raw card advantage — the more triggers you stack, the further you pull ahead on resources.

04
Sethron, Hurloon General

Sethron, Hurloon General

49.9% of decks · synergy 0.47

Sethron, Hurloon General creates Minotaur tokens whenever a Minotaur enters, which compounds fast; Vanquisher's Banner turns that snowball into a draw engine so the deck never runs out of fuel.

05
Commander Mustard

Commander Mustard

47.0% of decks · synergy 0.44

Commander Mustard's Vehicle-and-Soldier synergies push a wide board, and Vanquisher's Banner ensures that width pays off in cards, keeping the hand full as the battlefield fills.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Vanquisher's Banner is a Commander card front to back — five mana is a real ask in every 60-card format, and tribal payoffs at that cost have to compete with far more efficient options in Modern and Pioneer, where the card sees essentially no play. Legacy and Vintage are theoretically legal but offer nothing to a card this slow. Commander is where it lives: 100-card singleton rewards you for packing a single, persistent tribal anthem that also draws cards, and five mana is perfectly acceptable in a format where games routinely hit turns seven, eight, and beyond. Oathbreaker shares some of Commander's long-game sensibility, so Vanquisher's Banner can slot into tribal Oathbreaker builds the same way, though the faster pace of some metas makes it softer there.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

Kindred Discovery does more on the draw side but costs significantly more and draws on attack rather than on cast, which matters for token strategies. If the budget ceiling is tight, Herald's Horn hits the same tribal archetype at a lower price point — it doesn't provide the anthem, but the mana reduction plus the top-of-library draw covers a meaningful portion of what Vanquisher's Banner does, and the two cards pair well together when you can afford both.

Price Context

Current price

$5.34 mid tier

At $5.34, Vanquisher's Banner sits in a comfortable mid-tier bracket — expensive enough that it's a real purchase, cheap enough that it's a no-hesitation include in any tribal Commander deck that can use it. It has been reprinted enough to stay in this range, so there's no pressure to buy in early or treat it as a scarce pickup.

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