Komainu Battle Armor
Komainu Battle Armor: Artifact Creature - Equipment Dog, Neon Dynasty Commander. Menace Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has menace. On Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {2}{R}
- Mana value
- 3
- Type
- Artifact Creature - Equipment Dog
- Colour identity
- Red (R)
- Power / toughness
- 2/2
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- Neon Dynasty Commander (NEC)
- Released
- 2022-02-18
- Collector number
- 21
- Artist
- Néstor Ossandón Leal
- Keywords
- Goad, Menace, Reconfigure
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About Komainu Battle Armor
Komainu Battle Armor is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare red artifact creature from Neon Dynasty Commander (NEC), a Commander product released in February 2022. It is collector number 21 in that set, with art by Néstor Ossandón Leal. It costs {2}{R} (two generic and one red mana) to cast, for a mana value of 3. It is a 2/2 creature. Its colour identity is red. It is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander and Oathbreaker. It has been printed in 3 sets, from The List (2020) to Neon Dynasty Commander (2022). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $4.34 (normal finish, as of 2026-10-23).
Card text
Menace
Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has menace.
Whenever this creature or equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, goad each creature that player controls.
Reconfigure {4} ({4}: Attach to target creature you control; or unattach from a creature. Reconfigure only as a sorcery. While attached, this isn't a creature.)
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $4.34 (as of 2026-10-23).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Komainu Battle Armor by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Legacy | Legal |
|---|---|
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
Other printings of Komainu Battle Armor
Komainu Battle Armor has been printed in 3 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Magic Online Promos (PRM) #97995 | Rare | 2024 |
| The List (PLST) #NEC-21 | Rare | 2024 |
| Neon Dynasty Commander (NEC) #60 | Rare | 2022 |
Official rulings
The 8 most recent official rulings for Komainu Battle Armor, newest first.
- Attaching an Equipment with reconfigure to a creature causes that Equipment to stop being a creature until it becomes unattached. It also loses any creature subtypes it had.
- Reconfigure represents two activated abilities. Reconfigure [cost] means “[Cost]: Attach this permanent to another target creature you control. Activate only as a sorcery,” and “[Cost]: Unattach this permanent. Activate only if this permanent is attached to a creature and only as a sorcery.”
- Similarly, if an Equipment is tapped, its reconfigure abilities may still be activated and it may still become attached to creatures. Becoming attached doesn't untap it. In most cases, an attached Equipment being tapped won't affect gameplay, but it will be relevant if it becomes unattached again before it untaps.
- If an Equipment with reconfigure somehow loses its abilities while it is attached, the effect causing it to not be a creature continues to apply until it becomes unattached.
- An Equipment creature can never become attached to itself. If an effect tries to do this, nothing happens.
- As soon as an Equipment creature with reconfigure stops being a creature, any Equipment and Auras with enchant creature abilities become unattached. Auras that can enchant an Equipment that isn't a creature remain attached to it.
- An Equipment doesn't become tapped when the permanent it's attached to becomes tapped. For example, if you attack with a creature that is equipped with Acquisition Octopus, then use reconfigure to unattach Acquisition Octopus after combat, the Octopus will be untapped and could be used to block during your opponent's turn.
- If a permanent with reconfigure is somehow still a creature after it becomes attached (perhaps due to an effect like that of March of the Machines), it immediately becomes unattached from the equipped creature.
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