Vulshok Morningstar
Artifact — Equipment
Equipped creature gets +2/+2.
Equip (
: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Ninth Edition
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #23759
Vulshok Morningstar is a 2-mana Equipment that equips for 2 and grants +2/+2 — a flat four mana for a modest but immediate power-and-toughness bump with no other text. Playable filler in the very earliest stages of the game or in Equipment-tribal shells, but outclassed by almost any Equipment printed in the last decade.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Vulshok Morningstar sees essentially no competitive play in Legacy, Vintage, or Modern — those formats have access to Colossus Hammer, Shadowspear, and Sword of Fire and Ice, which make a vanilla +2/+2 Equipment irrelevant. In Pauper it is legal and cheap, but the format's best Equipment options still leave little reason to run it outside the most budget-constrained builds. Commander is where it occasionally shows up in Equipment-tribal decks helmed by commanders like Syr Gwyn, Hero of Ashvale or Bruenor Battlehammer, where equip-cost reduction turns the four-mana all-in into something more palatable — but even there, Vulshok Morningstar is a bottom-tier inclusion you cut as the deck improves.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data isn't available for Vulshok Morningstar at the moment, but as a common with no competitive demand it has historically sat at bulk pricing — expect to pay under $0.25 in most stores or buylist bins. It's not a card you pick up for any reason other than filling a slot before you acquire better Equipment.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.