Helm of the Host
Helm of the Host: Legendary Artifact - Equipment, Bloomburrow Commander. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {4}
- Mana value
- 4
- Type
- Legendary Artifact - Equipment
- Colour identity
- Colourless
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- Bloomburrow Commander (BLC)
- Released
- 2024-08-02
- Collector number
- 276
- Artist
- Igor Kieryluk
- Commander rank
- 394 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
- Keywords
- Equip
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About Helm of the Host
Helm of the Host is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare colourless legendary artifact from Bloomburrow Commander (BLC), a Commander product released in August 2024. It is collector number 276 in that set, with art by Igor Kieryluk. It costs {4} (four generic mana) to cast, for a mana value of 4. It has no colour identity. It is legal in Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Historic, Timeless, Gladiator and Penny Dreadful. It has been printed in 6 sets, from Dominaria (2018) to Marvel Super Heroes Commander (2026). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $6.19 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-03).
Card text
At the beginning of combat on your turn, create a token that's a copy of equipped creature, except the token isn't legendary. That token gains haste.
Equip {5}
Forged out of flowstone for the queen of Vesuva.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $6.19 (as of 2026-11-03).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Helm of the Host by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Pioneer | Legal |
|---|---|
| Modern | Legal |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Brawl | Legal |
| Historic | Legal |
| Timeless | Legal |
| Gladiator | Legal |
| Penny Dreadful | Legal |
Other printings of Helm of the Host
Helm of the Host has been printed in 6 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC) #200 | Rare | 2026 |
| Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC) #437 | Rare | 2026 |
| The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts (BRR) #19 | Mythic | 2022 |
| The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts (BRR) #82 | Mythic | 2022 |
| The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts (BRR) #82z | Mythic | 2022 |
| The List (PLST) #DOM-217 | Rare | 2022 |
| Dominaria (DOM) #217 | Rare | 2018 |
| Dominaria Promos (PDOM) #217p | Rare | 2018 |
| Dominaria Promos (PDOM) #217s | Rare | 2018 |
Official rulings
The 8 most recent official rulings for Helm of the Host, newest first.
- Any enters-the-battlefield abilities of the copied creature will trigger when the token enters the battlefield. Any "as [this creature] enters the battlefield" or "[this creature] enters the battlefield with" abilities of the chosen creature will also work.
- If the equipped creature leaves the battlefield before the triggered ability of Helm of the Host resolves, or if there is no equipped creature, no token is created. However, if Helm of the Host leaves the battlefield while its triggered ability is on the stack, a token will be created of the creature it last equipped. If that creature has also left the battlefield, its last known information is used to determine what the token looks like.
- If the copied creature has {X} in its mana cost, X is considered to be 0.
- The token isn't legendary, and this exception is copiable. If something else copies the token later, that copy also won't be legendary. If you control two or more permanents with the same name but only one is legendary, the "legend rule" doesn't apply.
- If the copied creature is copying something else (for example, if the copied creature is a Clone), then the token enters the battlefield as whatever that creature copied.
- The token copies exactly what was printed on the original creature and nothing else (unless that creature is copying something else or is a token; see below). It doesn't copy whether that creature is tapped or untapped, whether it has any counters on it or Auras and Equipment attached to it, or any non-copy effects that have changed its power, toughness, types, color, and so on.
- The token gains haste indefinitely, and this effect isn't copiable. If something else copies the token later, that copy won't have haste.
- If the copied creature is a token, the token that's created copies the original characteristics of that token as stated by the effect that created that token.
Similar cards
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Helm of the Host is in the decklist of these preconstructed Commander decks.