Wooden Stake
Artifact — Equipment
Equipped creature gets +1/+0.
Whenever equipped creature blocks or becomes blocked by a Vampire, destroy that creature. It can't be regenerated.
Equip 
(: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $0.10
- EDHREC rank
- #27495
Wooden Stake is a two-mana equipment that destroys a Vampire it deals damage to — a narrow, conditional removal effect stapled to a piece of equipment with no other upside. Outside of vampire-tribal decks where the joke is the point, there is almost no reason to run this over a direct removal spell.
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 |
Wooden Stake is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legality is not a recommendation. In Commander, the only conceivable home is a vampire-tribal deck leaning into flavor, and even there it competes poorly against unconditional removal like Swords to Plowshares. In Pauper, where efficiency is everything, Wooden Stake's combat-damage trigger condition is too slow and too narrow to see real play. Legacy and Vintage simply have no use for it.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.10 bulk tier
At $0.10, Wooden Stake is deep bulk — you're not paying for power, you're paying for a foil or a laugh. It will hold that price floor indefinitely, because demand will never outpace the supply of players who open it and immediately set it aside.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.