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Viridian Longbow

Artifact — Equipment

Equipped creature has "{T}: This creature deals 1 damage to any target."
Equip {3} ({3}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

CMC
1
Mana cost
{1}
Color identity
C
Rarity
common
Set
Mirrodin
Price
$1.40
EDHREC rank
#4593
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Viridian Longbow card art
Viridian Longbow turns any creature into a repeatable, targeted pinger — one damage at a time, at the cost of tapping that creature and paying one mana per activation. The equip cost is steep relative to the effect in most decks, but Shelob, Child of Ungoliant flips that calculus entirely: tap Shelob to shoot a creature, trigger deathtouch, kill it, generate a Food token.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Shelob, Child of Ungoliant

Shelob, Child of Ungoliant

57.5% of decks · synergy 0.54

Shelob, Child of Ungoliant has deathtouch always on, so Viridian Longbow turns every activation into a guaranteed kill — one damage is lethal when the source has deathtouch, and the Food generation keeps the engine fueled.

02
Vraska, the Silencer

Vraska, the Silencer

52.1% of decks · synergy 0.48

Vraska, the Silencer cares about opponents' creatures dying, and Viridian Longbow gives her a repeatable way to execute targets on demand — point, tap, collect the triggered reward.

03
Glissa, the Traitor

Glissa, the Traitor

48.4% of decks · synergy 0.45

Glissa, the Traitor has deathtouch built in, so Viridian Longbow lets her snipe creatures at will and trigger her own artifact recursion every time something dies.

04
Fynn, the Fangbearer

Fynn, the Fangbearer

31.5% of decks · synergy 0.30

Fynn, the Fangbearer rewards dealing combat damage with deathtouch creatures, and Viridian Longbow extends that deathtouch-damage package to the non-combat window — any creature equipped becomes a poison-clock accelerant.

05
Aphelia, Viper Whisperer

Aphelia, Viper Whisperer

20.9% of decks · synergy 0.17

Aphelia, Viper Whisperer builds around Snake tribal and deathtouch synergies, and Viridian Longbow slots in as a way to weaponize any deathtouch Snake on the board into a removal engine.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Viridian Longbow is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker — it's not legal in Pioneer or Standard. In Commander it earns its slot almost exclusively in deathtouch shells, where one-damage activations become unconditional removal. Outside of those synergy decks, it's too slow and mana-intensive to justify: three mana to equip plus one mana and a tap per activation adds up fast on a card that deals a single point. In Pauper, where removal is more constrained, Viridian Longbow sees occasional niche use in similar tap-to-kill builds. In Legacy, Modern, and Vintage, it simply doesn't make the cut — those formats move too fast for a three-mana equip to matter.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$1.40 cheap tier

At $1.40, Viridian Longbow sits at the low end of the cheap tier — you're paying for a niche role-player, not a staple. The price is stable given its narrow home in deathtouch commanders; demand isn't going anywhere, but neither is the supply.

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