Canopy Claws
Instant
Target creature loses flying until end of turn.
Flashback 
(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Judgment
- Price
- $0.14
- EDHREC rank
- #26879
Canopy Claws trades reach removal for a single green mana at instant speed — a clean answer to a flying blocker or a Consecrated Sphinx sitting safely behind wings. The floor is narrow enough that you rarely want it outside of dedicated flyer-hate slots, but the ceiling costs almost nothing to access.
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 |
Canopy Claws is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but its home is firmly Pauper, where reach creatures and evasive flyers define board states and one-mana instant-speed interaction is genuinely valuable. In Commander, the card is too narrow — reach is rarely the relevant keyword, and a single removal spell needs to answer more than one creature type to earn a slot in a 99-card deck. Legacy and Vintage have access to far more efficient interaction, so Canopy Claws never competes there.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.14 bulk tier
At $0.14, Canopy Claws is deep bulk — a filler-bin card with no price floor worth discussing. It holds that value because demand is low and copies are plentiful, not because the effect is underrated.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.