Strong Back
Strong Back: Enchantment - Aura, Fallout. Enchant creature. Equip abilities you activate that target enchanted creature cost 3 less to activate. On Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {2}{G}
- Mana value
- 3
- Type
- Enchantment - Aura
- Colour identity
- Green (G)
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- Fallout (PIP)
- Released
- 2024-03-08
- Collector number
- 83
- Artist
- Elizabeth Peiró
- Commander rank
- 3,203 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
- Keywords
- Enchant
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About Strong Back
Strong Back is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare green enchantment from Fallout (PIP), a Commander product released in March 2024. It is collector number 83 in that set, with art by Elizabeth Peiró. It costs {2}{G} (two generic and one green mana) to cast, for a mana value of 3. Its colour identity is green. It is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander and Oathbreaker. Fallout is its only printing so far. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $1.58 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-02).
Card text
Enchant creature
Equip abilities you activate that target enchanted creature cost {3} less to activate.
Aura spells you cast that target enchanted creature cost {3} less to cast.
Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 for each Aura and Equipment attached to it.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $1.58 (as of 2026-11-02).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Strong Back 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 Strong Back
The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Fallout (PIP) #402 | Rare | 2024 |
| Fallout (PIP) #611 | Rare | 2024 |
| Fallout (PIP) #930 | Rare | 2024 |
Official rulings
Three official rulings apply to Strong Back, newest first.
- Strong Back’s third ability won’t reduce its own cost.
- 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 {1}{G} to {G}.
- 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.
Similar cards
Other enchantment cards with a green colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.
In these precons
Strong Back is in the decklist of these preconstructed Commander decks.