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Warchanter Skald

Creature — Dwarf Cleric

Whenever this creature becomes tapped, if it's enchanted or equipped, create a 2/1 red Dwarf Berserker creature token.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Kaldheim
Price
$0.15
EDHREC rank
#21311
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Warchanter Skald card art
Warchanter Skald puts an Equipment on the battlefield attached to a creature the moment that creature enters — no equip cost, no delay, just immediate value. The catch is the three-mana equip rider whenever you attach it otherwise, which makes the on-ETB trigger the whole reason to run it. Pair it with Bruenor Battlehammer or Intruder Alarm and the free-attach trigger becomes an engine; outside that context, it's a niche role-player.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Bruenor Battlehammer

Bruenor Battlehammer

11.9% of decks · synergy 0.12

Bruenor Battlehammer already reduces equip costs to zero, so Warchanter Skald's on-ETB trigger stacks into a recursive attach-and-trigger loop whenever a new creature lands — turn every incoming creature into a live Equipment activation and watch the value chain compound.

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

Warchanter Skald is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it's a Commander card through and through. In 60-card formats the three-mana equip cost on manual attachment is prohibitive and the ETB window is too narrow to build around consistently. Commander is where the payoff materializes: go-wide Equipment decks and commanders like Bruenor Battlehammer generate enough creature ETBs to make the free-attach trigger fire repeatedly in a single turn cycle. Oathbreaker can support it in the right Equipment shell, but the smaller game size limits how often the engine gets going.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

7 decks
Warchanter SkaldIntruder AlarmHermetic Study

Warchanter SkaldIntruder AlarmHermetic Study

Infinite creature tokens; Infinite damage; Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite untap of creatures; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce; Infinite untap of creatures you control

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Price Context

Current price

$0.15 bulk tier

At $0.15, Warchanter Skald sits firmly in bulk territory — the kind of card you throw in a trade binder and forget about until you need it. Bulk rares with narrow combo upside tend to stay cheap, so don't expect this to move unless Equipment synergy commanders spike in popularity.

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