Brassclaw Orcs
Creature — Orc
This creature can't block creatures with power 2 or greater.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Masters Edition II
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #30281
Brassclaw Orcs is a 3/2 for three mana that can't block creatures with power 2 or greater — a real cost in a format where almost everything attacks with 2+ power. The card was underpowered at printing and nothing about the current card pool has rehabilitated it.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Brassclaw Orcs sees no competitive play in any format where it's legal. In Commander, a 3/2 for three with a severe blocking restriction is nowhere near the rate needed to make a 99-card roster — you'd have to be running a dedicated Orc tribal list helmed by something like Golos or a custom Orc commander before Brassclaw Orcs even enters the conversation, and even then there are better bodies. In Legacy and Vintage, the card simply doesn't meet the bar; neither format has ever had a reason to run it. Pauper is the only place a vanilla-adjacent three-drop might theoretically compete, but the blocking clause makes it worse than commons printed years later.
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Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data for Brassclaw Orcs isn't currently available, but as a long-out-of-print common with no competitive application, copies typically show up in bulk bins at a few cents each. There's no reason to pay a premium — if you want it for nostalgia or theme, find it in a bulk lot.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.