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Artifact — Equipment
LegalRank #527
Equipped creature gets +3/+3 and has protection from each color that's not in your commander's color identity.
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Why is this card good?
Commander's Plate is one of the best Equipment in the format for the right deck, and its quality scales directly with how few colors your commander has.
Why it's great: The protection is the real selling point — in a mono-color deck, the equipped creature dodges four of five colors, making it nearly impossible to interact with via removal, blockers, or combat. Bolt it to your commander (cheap equip), and you've got an evasive, unkillable beater. The +3/+3 is just gravy.
Who wants it: Mono-color voltron decks love this most — think mono-white, mono-black, or mono-red commanders trying to connect for damage or commander tax kills. Two-color voltron still benefits; three-plus colors barely gets protection and should usually skip it.
When NOT to play it: Anything four or five colors, where it grants almost no protection. Also skip in decks that don't care about a single big attacker — token swarms, spellslinger, and group-value builds get far more from cheaper equipment or none at all.
Razor-sharp in mono-color voltron; mediocre everywhere else.
equip), and you've got an evasive, unkillable beater. The +3/+3 is just gravy.
Who wants it: Mono-color voltron decks love this most — think mono-white, mono-black, or mono-red commanders trying to connect for damage or commander tax kills. Two-color voltron still benefits; three-plus colors barely gets protection and should usually skip it.
When NOT to play it: Anything four or five colors, where it grants almost no protection. Also skip in decks that don't care about a single big attacker — token swarms, spellslinger, and group-value builds get far more from cheaper equipment or none at all.
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Rulings (3)
- 2020-11-10
If you have no commander, Commander's Plate grants no protection abilities. The equipped creature still gets +3/+3.
- 2020-11-10
If you have two commanders and attach Commander's Plate to one, it has protection from each color not in your two commanders' combined color identity.
- 2020-11-10
If your commander is a card that has no colors in its color identity, Commander's Plate gives it protection from each color.