The Masamune
The Masamune: Legendary Artifact - Equipment, Final Fantasy. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {3}
- Mana value
- 3
- Type
- Legendary Artifact - Equipment
- Colour identity
- Colourless
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- Final Fantasy (FIN)
- Released
- 2025-06-13
- Collector number
- 264
- Artist
- Masateru Ikeda
- Commander rank
- 3,815 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
- Keywords
- Equip
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About The Masamune
The Masamune is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare colourless legendary artifact from Final Fantasy (FIN), an expansion set released in June 2025. It is collector number 264 in that set, with art by Masateru Ikeda. It costs {3} (three generic mana) to cast, for a mana value of 3. It has no colour identity. It is legal in Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Historic, Timeless, Alchemy, Gladiator and Penny Dreadful. It has been printed in 2 sets. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.76 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-02).
Card text
As long as equipped creature is attacking, it has first strike and must be blocked if able.
Equipped creature has "If a creature dying causes a triggered ability of this creature or an emblem you own to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time."
Equip {2}
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.76 (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 The Masamune by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Standard | Legal |
|---|---|
| Pioneer | Legal |
| Modern | Legal |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Brawl | Legal |
| Standard Brawl | Legal |
| Historic | Legal |
| Timeless | Legal |
| Alchemy | Legal |
| Gladiator | Legal |
| Penny Dreadful | Legal |
Other printings of The Masamune
The Masamune has been printed in 2 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Final Fantasy (FIN) #353 | Rare | 2025 |
| Final Fantasy Promos (PFIN) #264s | Rare | 2025 |
Official rulings
The 8 most recent official rulings for The Masamune, newest first.
- The trigger event doesn't have to specifically refer to "creatures." In these cases, the trigger event may also refer to something being "put into a graveyard from the battlefield." For example, if the equipped creature or an emblem you own has an ability that triggers "whenever an artifact is put into a graveyard from the battlefield," that ability would trigger twice if an artifact creature died.
- If you somehow control two of The Masamune and they're equipped to creatures you control, a creature dying causes abilities of emblems you own to trigger three times, not four. (If they're equipped to the same creature, the abilities of the equipped creature will also trigger three times.)
- The granted ability's effect doesn't copy the triggered ability; it just causes the ability to trigger twice. Any choices made as you put the ability onto the stack, such as modes and targets, are made separately for each instance of the ability. Any choices made on resolution, such as whether to pay a cost for that triggered ability, are also made separately.
- Look at each creature as it exists on the battlefield, taking into account continuous effects, to determine whether any triggered abilities will trigger multiple times. For example, if a land that has become a creature dies, an ability that triggers when it dies triggers twice.
- An ability that triggers on an event that causes a creature to die doesn't trigger twice. For example, an ability that triggers "whenever you sacrifice a creature" triggers only once.
- The granted ability affects the equipped creature's own "when this creature dies" triggered abilities as well as other triggered abilities of that creature or emblems you own that trigger when a creature dies. Such triggered abilities start with "when" or "whenever."
- An ability of the equipped creature or an emblem you own that triggers when a creature "leaves the battlefield" will trigger twice if that creature leaves the battlefield by dying.
- If a creature dying at the same time as the equipped creature (including the equipped creature itself dying) causes a triggered ability of the equipped creature or an emblem you own to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.
Similar cards
Other artifact cards with no colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.