Buster Sword
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
Equipped creature gets +3/+2.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card, then you may cast a spell from your hand with mana value less than or equal to that damage without paying its mana cost.
Equip 2
Rulings
3 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2025-06-06
If you cast a spell "without paying its mana cost," you can't choose to cast it for any alternative costs. You can, however, pay additional costs, such as kicker costs. If the card has any mandatory additional costs, those must be paid to cast the spell.
- 2025-06-06
If a spell you cast has X in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost.
- 2025-06-06
You choose whether to cast a spell from among the cards in your hand as Buster Sword's middle ability resolves. You can't wait to cast one later in the turn. Timing restrictions based on the card's types are ignored.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Buster Sword, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima | 2 | 1 | — |
| Whiplash, Vengeful Engineer | 1 | 1 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Esper 2 decks
- Mono-Black 1 deck
Buster Sword price history
The Final Fantasy #255 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly. Click any version below to chart its price.
Every recorded price change
| Date | Non-foil | Foil |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 6, 2026 | $50.30 | $62.64 |
| Oct 5, 2026 | $48.78 | $62.64 |
| Oct 4, 2026 | $49.85 | $62.64 |
| Oct 3, 2026 | $51.39 | $62.92 |
| Oct 2, 2026 | $51.01 | $62.65 |
| Oct 1, 2026 | $52.49 | $62.65 |
| Sep 30, 2026 | $52.45 | $62.65 |
| Sep 29, 2026 | $52.04 | $62.37 |
| Sep 28, 2026 | $52.82 | $62.37 |
A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.
Every version of Buster Sword
3 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly. A printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall publishes none for some of them. Click a card's art to chart that version's price above.
- Normal
- $50.30
- Foil
- $62.64
Promo
Final Fantasy Promos
- Foil
- $109.10
Inverted
- Normal
- $116.17
- Foil
- $176.01
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Buster Sword. It runs a name search across every version, which covers the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.
Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only. No individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.
