The Infamous Cruelclaw

Legendary Creature — Weasel Mercenary · from $1.46

Menace Whenever The Infamous Cruelclaw deals combat damage to a player, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card. You may cast that card by discarding a card rather than paying its mana cost.

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A typical Commander deck

A starting template, not a rule — counts to fill in around the commander.

Lands3736–38 for most decks; fewer with cheap curves
Ramp10mana rocks, dorks, land ramp — mostly 2–3 mana
Card draw10repeatable engines beat one-shot cantrips
Targeted removal6answers for creatures AND artifacts/enchantments
Board wipes3sweepers reset boards you've lost
Synergy & win conditions33the deck's actual plan

Staples in these colors

The 100 cards that fit this color identity in the most EDHREC decklists (EDHREC rank via Scryfall).

Budget

57 of 100 at $5 or less · 39 at $1 or less

#	Card	Type	MV	Price
1	Sol Ring	Artifact	1	$1.07
2	Command Tower	Land	0	$0.26
3	Arcane Signet	Artifact	2	$0.34
4	Exotic Orchard	Land	0	$0.19
5	Reliquary Tower	Land	0	$4.28
6	Swiftfoot Boots	Artifact	2	$1.43
7	Lightning Greaves	Artifact	2	$3.86
8	Path of Ancestry	Land	0	$0.16
9	Fellwar Stone	Artifact	2	$0.47
10	Rogue's Passage	Land	0	$0.31
11	Evolving Wilds	Land	0	$0.09
12	Thought Vessel	Artifact	2	$2.23
13	Blasphemous Act	Sorcery	9	$0.72
14	Bojuka Bog	Land	0	$1.12
15	Terramorphic Expanse	Land	0	$0.10
16	Chaos Warp	Instant	3	$0.32
17	Myriad Landscape	Land	0	$0.25
18	Mind Stone	Artifact	2	$0.21
19	Dark Ritual	Instant	1	$0.44
20	Polluted Delta	Land	0	$19.85
21	Flooded Strand	Land	0	$12.78
22	Skullclamp	Artifact	1	$4.85
23	Solemn Simulacrum	Creature	4	$0.27
24	Misty Rainforest	Land	0	$35.98
25	Bloodstained Mire	Land	0	$14.54
26	Fabled Passage	Land	0	$0.65
27	Windswept Heath	Land	0	$11.19
28	Wooded Foothills	Land	0	$17.96
29	Verdant Catacombs	Land	0	$29.16
30	Scalding Tarn	Land	0	$36.86
31	Marsh Flats	Land	0	$32.04
32	Commander's Sphere	Artifact	3	$0.19
33	Reanimate	Sorcery	1	$6.56
34	Arid Mesa	Land	0	$31.40
35	Demonic Tutor	Sorcery	2	$62.80
36	Toxic Deluge	Sorcery	3	$5.04
37	Blood Crypt	Land	0	$8.68
38	Ancient Tomb	Land	0	$56.94
39	Deflecting Swat	Instant	3	$70.85
40	Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth	Land	0	$56.13
41	Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth	Land	0	$16.76
42	Temple of the False God	Land	0	$0.19
43	Dragonskull Summit	Land	0	$0.45
44	Chromatic Lantern	Artifact	3	$0.38
45	Feed the Swarm	Sorcery	2	$0.19
46	Smoldering Marsh	Land	0	$0.27
47	City of Brass	Land	0	$9.17
48	The One Ring	Artifact	4	$109.88
49	Faithless Looting	Sorcery	1	$0.36
50	Vandalblast	Sorcery	1	$1.74
51	Phyrexian Arena	Enchantment	3	$1.92
52	Jeska's Will	Sorcery	3	$39.58
53	Deadly Rollick	Instant	4	$26.52
54	Cavern of Souls	Land	0	$47.72
55	Vampiric Tutor	Instant	1	$48.13
56	Mana Confluence	Land	0	$34.75
57	Urza's Saga	Enchantment	0	$34.67
58	Lotus Petal	Artifact	0	$35.11
59	Wayfarer's Bauble	Artifact	1	$0.31
60	Talisman of Indulgence	Artifact	2	$0.47
61	Black Market Connections	Enchantment	3	$10.78
62	Victimize	Sorcery	3	$0.57
63	Deadly Dispute	Instant	2	$0.29
64	Roaming Throne	Creature	4	$47.06
65	Ashnod's Altar	Artifact	3	$8.15
66	Big Score	Instant	4	$0.41
67	War Room	Land	0	$0.79
68	Blood Artist	Creature	2	$2.78
69	Sulfurous Springs	Land	0	$0.49
70	Abrade	Instant	2	$0.17
71	Herald's Horn	Artifact	3	$2.88
72	Mana Vault	Artifact	1	$91.59
73	Chrome Mox	Artifact	0	$51.19
74	Lightning Bolt	Instant	1	$0.75
75	Luxury Suite	Land	0	$8.62
76	Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx	Land	0	$45.68
77	Reflecting Pool	Land	0	$5.50
78	Rakdos Signet	Artifact	2	$0.31
79	Three Tree City	Land	0	$29.09
80	Gemstone Caverns	Land	0	$62.05
81	Night's Whisper	Sorcery	2	$0.23
82	Command Beacon	Land	0	$7.99
83	Idol of Oblivion	Artifact	2	$2.40
84	Prismatic Vista	Land	0	$28.10
85	Buried Ruin	Land	0	$0.38
86	Phyrexian Tower	Land	0	$29.06
87	Thran Dynamo	Artifact	4	$1.94
88	Storm-Kiln Artist	Creature	4	$1.74
89	Fell the Profane // Fell Mire	Instant	4	$5.80
90	Cabal Coffers	Land	0	$20.77
91	Impact Tremors	Enchantment	2	$2.52
92	Patchwork Banner	Artifact	3	$1.52
93	Village Rites	Instant	1	$0.30
94	Mox Amber	Artifact	0	$86.45
95	Karn's Bastion	Land	0	$2.51
96	Professional Face-Breaker	Creature	3	$4.99
97	Ash Barrens	Land	0	$0.15
98	Thrill of Possibility	Instant	2	$0.17
99	Secluded Courtyard	Land	0	$0.31
100	Ornithopter of Paradise	Creature	2	$0.35

Curve of these staples

Most played with The Infamous Cruelclaw

The 25 most-played cards in 5 settled top-16 lists running The Infamous Cruelclaw at 16+ player events since Mar 8, 2026, ranked by lists played — top-4 counts shown for context. Results from Topdeck.gg.

#	Card	Played in
1	Mountain	100% · 5 of 5
2	Swamp	100% · 5 of 5
3	Ulamog, the Defiler	100% · 5 of 5
4	Blood Crypt	80% · 4 of 5
5	Bloodstained Mire	80% · 4 of 5
6	Dark Ritual	80% · 4 of 5
7	Sol Ring	80% · 4 of 5
8	Access Tunnel	60% · 3 of 5
9	Arid Mesa	60% · 3 of 5
10	Blasphemous Act	60% · 3 of 5
11	Chaos Warp	60% · 3 of 5
12	Command Tower	60% · 3 of 5
13	Gemstone Caverns	60% · 3 of 5
14	Kozilek, Butcher of Truth	60% · 3 of 5
15	Kozilek, the Great Distortion	60% · 3 of 5
16	Lightning Greaves	60% · 3 of 5
17	Lotus Petal	60% · 3 of 5
18	Luxury Suite	60% · 3 of 5
19	Mana Vault	60% · 3 of 5
20	Peat Bog	60% · 3 of 5
21	Polluted Delta	60% · 3 of 5
22	Portal to Phyrexia	60% · 3 of 5
23	Rise of the Eldrazi	60% · 3 of 5
24	Rogue's Passage	60% · 3 of 5
25	Scroll Rack	60% · 3 of 5

Top finishes

The 8 most recent of 10 finishes placing top 16 at 16+ player events with this commander. Results from Topdeck.gg.

9th of 29 — IDubz Seasonal Series 4 Season 2 on Topdeck.ggOct 5, 2026 · 1–4–0 · by Aspen Mitchell-Saint Aubin
10th of 21 — Free Mulligans - Casual EDH League (Season 3, Tappa 1) on Topdeck.ggOct 1, 2026 · 0–1–1 · by Domenico proietti
10th of 23 — Valley Forge 2026 - Sunday cEDH Super Scrubby Rebound on Topdeck.ggAug 16, 2026 · 0–2–2 · by Tyler Williams
15th of 27 — CEDH Monthly Cash Tournament (August) @ Grand J Games Melbourne on Topdeck.ggAug 15, 2026 · 0–2–1 · by Meredith Goat
5th of 20 — Torneo Bracket 3 Stribog on Topdeck.ggAug 8, 2026 · 1–1–2 · by Hamlet Stark
9th of 32 — Commander Casual - Magic Barcelona on Topdeck.ggApr 24, 2026 · 0–2–0 · by Edgar Sánchez Abril
16th of 33 — Best in the West Silver Qualifier on Topdeck.ggApr 11, 2026 · 0–1–2 · by Tyler 🌲🦫🪵 (MrGratitude)
4th of 33 — Commander Casual - Magic Barcelona on Topdeck.ggApr 10, 2026 · 1–1–0 · by Edgar Sánchez Abril

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Card data and images courtesy of Scryfall; popularity ranking from EDHREC decklist data included in Scryfall bulk. Tournament results courtesy of Topdeck.gg. Deckwarden is unofficial Fan Content and is not endorsed by Wizards of the Coast.

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