Strong Back
- Mana cost
- {2}{G}
- Type
- Enchantment — Aura
- Set
- Fallout #402 (rare)
- Price
- $2.99 USD
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.
Strong Back has 4 printings, first in Fallout (2024). EDHREC ranks it #3,273 among Commander cards. It appears most in Kotis, the Fangkeeper decks (9,249 on EDHREC). 1 public deck on TCG runs it. It has 3 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: not legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Public decks that run Strong Back
- Scrappy Survivors - Fallout, led by Dogmeat, Ever Loyal
Commanders that run Strong Back most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Kotis, the Fangkeeper: 9,249 decks
- Dogmeat, Ever Loyal: 7,556 decks
- Uril, the Miststalker: 3,085 decks
- Ivy, Gleeful Spellthief: 2,259 decks
- Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER: 1,918 decks
- Kosei, Penitent Warlord: 1,750 decks
- Stangg, Echo Warrior: 1,546 decks
- Galea, Kindler of Hope: 1,527 decks
Often played with Strong Back
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : 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.