The Infamous Cruelclaw

The Infamous Cruelclaw

Legendary Creature — Weasel Mercenary

Mana cost: {1}{B}{R}

How we read this card

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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What we read on this card

Causes: exile an artifact, exile a battle, exile a creature, exile an enchantment, exile an instant, exile a planeswalker, exile a sorcery, cast an artifact, cast a battle, cast a creature, cast an enchantment, cast an instant, cast a planeswalker, cast a sorcery, discard a card.

Cares about: nothing.

Works well with

a battle is cast — 38 cards in The Infamous Cruelclaw's colors can cause this (The Infamous Cruelclaw is one).

  1. Defiler of Instinct — When The Infamous Cruelclaw is cast, Defiler of Instinct deals 1 damage
  2. Defiler of Flesh — When The Infamous Cruelclaw is cast, Defiler of Flesh gives +1/+1
  3. Tetsuko Umezawa, Pursuer — When an artifact is cast thanks to The Infamous Cruelclaw, Tetsuko Umezawa, Pursuer gets +1/+1
  4. Thor, God of Thunder — When an artifact is cast thanks to The Infamous Cruelclaw, Thor, God of Thunder deals that spell's mana value damage
  5. Soul-Scar Mage — When an artifact is cast thanks to The Infamous Cruelclaw, Soul-Scar Mage gets +1/+1
  6. Tomik, Izzet Sparkmage — When an artifact is cast thanks to The Infamous Cruelclaw, Tomik, Izzet Sparkmage gets +1/+1
  7. Vindictive Flamestoker — When an artifact is cast thanks to The Infamous Cruelclaw, Vindictive Flamestoker puts a oil counter on itself
  8. Heartfire Immolator — When an artifact is cast thanks to The Infamous Cruelclaw, Heartfire Immolator gets +1/+1
  9. Blood Funnel — When an artifact is cast thanks to The Infamous Cruelclaw, Blood Funnel sacrifices a creature
  10. Artist's Talent — When an artifact is cast thanks to The Infamous Cruelclaw, Artist's Talent draws and discards

78 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a planeswalker is exiled — 83 cards in The Infamous Cruelclaw's colors can cause this (The Infamous Cruelclaw is one).

  1. Kaya's Ghostform — When a creature is exiled thanks to The Infamous Cruelclaw, Kaya's Ghostform blinks a permanent

a nontoken artifact is exiled — 108 cards in The Infamous Cruelclaw's colors can cause this (The Infamous Cruelclaw is one).

When an artifact is exiled thanks to The Infamous Cruelclaw:

  1. Psychomancer — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  2. Slagstone Refinery — makes a token

an artifact is exiled — 110 cards in The Infamous Cruelclaw's colors can cause this (The Infamous Cruelclaw is one).

  1. Shard of the Void Dragon — When an artifact is exiled thanks to The Infamous Cruelclaw, Shard of the Void Dragon puts 2 +1/+1 counters on itself

1 other card cares about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a planeswalker is cast — 107 cards in The Infamous Cruelclaw's colors can cause this (The Infamous Cruelclaw is one).

When a planeswalker is cast thanks to The Infamous Cruelclaw:

  1. Jaya's Phoenix — returns itself from the graveyard
  2. Interplanar Beacon — gains you 1 life

89 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a creature is exiled — 373 cards in The Infamous Cruelclaw's colors can cause this (The Infamous Cruelclaw is one).

  1. Ashnod's Intervention — When a creature is exiled thanks to The Infamous Cruelclaw, Ashnod's Intervention brings a card back

2 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a card is discarded — 1,069 cards in The Infamous Cruelclaw's colors can cause this (The Infamous Cruelclaw is one).

When The Infamous Cruelclaw makes a player discard a card:

  1. Ivora, Insatiable Heir — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  2. Cool but Rude — deals 2 damage
  3. Containment Construct — brings a card back
  4. Moonstone, Harsh Mistress — brings a card back
  5. Magmakin Artillerist — deals that much damage
  6. Glint-Horn Buccaneer — deals 1 damage
  7. Inti, Seneschal of the Sun — exiles a card from your library
  8. Pitchstone Wall — sacrifices itself
  9. Currency Converter — exiles it
  10. Hostile Investigator — triggers

31 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

an enchantment is cast — 1,190 cards in The Infamous Cruelclaw's colors can cause this (The Infamous Cruelclaw is one).

  1. Blightcaster — When an enchantment is cast thanks to The Infamous Cruelclaw, Blightcaster shrinks a creature by -2/-2

88 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

an artifact is cast — 2,738 cards in The Infamous Cruelclaw's colors can cause this (The Infamous Cruelclaw is one).

When an artifact is cast thanks to The Infamous Cruelclaw:

  1. Ravenous Robots — makes a token
  2. Poetic Ingenuity — makes a token
  3. Patchwork Automaton — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  4. Golem Foundry — puts a charge counter on itself
  5. Embersmith — deals 1 damage
  6. Painsmith — gives +2/+0
  7. Golem's Heart — gains you 1 life
  8. Urza's Chalice — gains you 1 life
  9. Biotransference — makes you lose life
  10. Drooling Ogre — gives an opponent control of itself

90 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a sorcery is cast — 1,700 cards in The Infamous Cruelclaw's colors can cause this (The Infamous Cruelclaw is one).

When an instant is cast thanks to The Infamous Cruelclaw:

  1. Sword of Wealth and Power — copies a spell
  2. Storm-Kiln Artist — makes a token
  3. Tor Wauki the Younger — deals 2 damage
  4. Fandaniel, Telophoroi Ascian — surveils
  5. Professor Onyx — makes each opponent lose 2 life
  6. Urabrask // The Great Work — deals 1 damage
  7. Unruly Catapult — untaps itself
  8. Mica, Reader of Ruins — sacrifices an artifact
  9. Summon: G.F. Cerberus — triggers
  10. Ashling, Flame Dancer — draws and discards

155 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

an instant is cast — 1,293 cards in The Infamous Cruelclaw's colors can cause this (The Infamous Cruelclaw is one).

  1. Repeated Reverberation — When an instant is cast thanks to The Infamous Cruelclaw, Repeated Reverberation copies an ability

165 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a card in a graveyard — 3,858 cards in The Infamous Cruelclaw's colors can cause this (The Infamous Cruelclaw is one).

The Infamous Cruelclaw:

  1. Harness the Storm — puts cards into the graveyard that Harness the Storm can bring back
  2. Heart-Shaped Herb — puts cards into the graveyard that Heart-Shaped Herb can bring back
  3. Rescue from the Underworld — puts cards into the graveyard that Rescue from the Underworld can bring back
  4. Victimize — puts cards into the graveyard that Victimize can bring back
  5. Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern — puts cards into the graveyard that Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern can bring back
  6. Sivriss, Nightmare Speaker — puts cards into the graveyard that Sivriss, Nightmare Speaker can bring back
  7. Repentant Vampire — fills your graveyard toward the 7 or more cards Repentant Vampire needs
  8. Treacherous Vampire — fills your graveyard toward the 7 or more cards Treacherous Vampire needs
  9. Xiahou Dun, the One-Eyed — puts cards into the graveyard that Xiahou Dun, the One-Eyed can bring back
  10. Loot, the Anomaly — fills your graveyard toward the 7 or more cards Loot, the Anomaly needs

170 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

anything goes to a graveyard — 3,858 cards in The Infamous Cruelclaw's colors can cause this (The Infamous Cruelclaw is one).

  1. Measure of Wickedness — When a card hits the graveyard thanks to The Infamous Cruelclaw, Measure of Wickedness gives an opponent control of itself

4 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.