Sword of Sinew and Steel
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from black and from red.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, destroy up to one target planeswalker and up to one target artifact.
Equip 2
Rulings
One official ruling, as Wizards published it.
- 2019-06-14
Protection from a color means that the equipped creature can't be blocked by creatures of that color, can't be the target of spells of that color or abilities from sources of that color, can't be enchanted or equipped by Auras or Equipment of that color, and all damage that sources of that color would deal to it is prevented. Nothing other than these events is prevented or illegal.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Sword of Sinew and Steel, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Captain America, First Avenger | 1 | 0 | — |
| Doctor Doom, King of Latveria | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Grixis 1 deck
- Jeskai 1 deck
Every version of Sword of Sinew and Steel
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.

Inverted
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Source Material
- Normal
- $2.87
- Foil
- $3.65

Modern Horizons 1 Timeshifts
- Foil
- $14.18
- Etched
- $10.77

- Normal
- $10.61
- Foil
- $22.83
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Sword of Sinew and Steel. 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.