Strong Back
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
FalloutPIP · #402
- Card type
- Enchantment — Aura
- Rarity
- Rare
- Indicative price
- 2.19 € · ★ 2.08 € · 2.99 $ · ★ 3.10 $
- Mana value
- 3
- Colour
- Green
Card text
Enchant creature Equip abilities you activate that target enchanted creature cost less to activate. Aura spells you cast that target enchanted creature cost less to cast. Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 for each Aura and Equipment attached to it.
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
Indicative Scryfall prices, updated daily. ★: foil; ★ E: etched foil. EUR and USD represent different markets.
Printing information
- Illustrator
- Elizabeth Peiró
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2024-03-08
Rulings
Some Equipment creature cards in other sets have reconfigure, a different ability that attaches them to a creature. Reconfigure is not an equip ability, and reconfigure costs are not reduced by Strong Back’s second ability. Equip variants or equip abilities with restrictions, like the “equip Citizen” ability of Ceremonial Groundbreaker from the Streets of New Capenna® set, are still equip abilities, and their costs will be reduced by Strong Back’s second ability.
Strong Back’s abilities reduce only the amount of generic mana in equip abilities that target the enchanted creature and in the total cost of Aura spells that target the enchanted creature. For example, it will reduce the total cost of Animal Friend from to .
Strong Back’s third ability won’t reduce its own cost.