Cait, Cage Brawler
Legendary Creature — Human Warrior
During your turn, Cait has indestructible.
Whenever Cait attacks, you and defending player each draw a card, then discard a card. Put two +1/+1 counters on Cait if you discarded the card with the greatest mana value among those cards or tied for greatest.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GR
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Fallout
- Price
- $0.29
- EDHREC rank
- #11783
Cait, Cage Brawler hits the board as a value engine that rewards attacking with a junk-scrapping gameplan — she generates card advantage and scales with the waste your opponents create. The cost is real: she demands a dedicated Scavenge or junk-token shell to do much of anything, and outside of Dogmeat, Ever Loyal lists, she's just an expensive beater.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Dogmeat, Ever Loyal
Dogmeat, Ever Loyal is the natural home — the junk tokens he generates feed Cait, Cage Brawler's ability directly, turning the deck's core resource loop into a card-draw engine on top of the counters and recursion Dogmeat already provides.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Cait, Cage Brawler is a Commander card through and through — her value accrues over multiple turns and depends on a specific board state that only EDH's slower, multiplayer games reliably enable. She's technically legal in Legacy and Vintage, but no competitive shell there wants a five-mana creature whose payoff requires junk tokens. Oathbreaker is the only other format where she's even worth considering, and only if the planeswalker and signature spell support the same junk theme.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.29 bulk tier
At $0.29, Cait, Cage Brawler sits firmly in bulk territory, which is accurate for a card with a single relevant home. Bulk rares tied to one niche commander rarely climb unless that commander spikes in popularity, so don't expect the price to move.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.