Veteran's Powerblade
Artifact — Equipment
Equipped creature gets +2/+0.
Equip Soldier 
Equip 
(: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The Brothers' War
- Price
- $0.09
- EDHREC rank
- #23591
Veteran's Powerblade straps +2/+0 and first strike onto any creature at instant speed for two mana, a clean combat trick with zero setup cost. It's a narrow role-player — run it if your deck wins through attacking and needs ways to push through blockers cheaply.
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 |
Veteran's Powerblade is legal in every major format but sees real play almost exclusively in Pauper, where cheap combat tricks that trade up against larger blockers carry genuine weight in aggressive commons-only builds. In Commander, the card is too low-impact for 100-card singleton — you're spending a card slot on a one-shot buff that doesn't generate value, and the format's board states punish that kind of card disadvantage hard. Competitive constructed formats like Modern and Pioneer have no interest; the power ceiling is simply too low when two mana buys transformative spells elsewhere.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.09 bulk tier
At $0.09, Veteran's Powerblade is deep bulk — it costs less than a sleeve and is priced exactly in line with its demand. Don't expect movement in either direction; this is a card you pull from a common box, not one you track.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.