Claws of Wirewood
Sorcery
Claws of Wirewood deals 3 damage to each creature with flying and each player.
Cycling 
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- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Scourge
- Price
- $0.13
- EDHREC rank
- #27481
Claws of Wirewood hits every creature with flying for 3 damage and forces each player to sacrifice a flier — all for three mana at sorcery speed. It's a niche hate piece that overperforms exactly when your meta needs it and is dead weight when it doesn't.
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 |
In Commander, Claws of Wirewood earns a slot when your table runs aggressive flying threats — dragons, angels, sphinxes — that your green-based deck can't answer cleanly. It's a one-sided sweeper in the right shell: green rarely has fliers of its own, so the sacrifice clause mostly hits opponents. In Legacy and Vintage it's too narrow and too slow to compete; the formats have better answers at lower cost. Pauper is where it has historically seen the most non-Commander play, since the flying-creature density is real and options are limited at common.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.13 bulk tier
At $0.13, Claws of Wirewood is pure bulk — there's no financial barrier to picking up a copy. Bulk hate pieces like this don't appreciate unless a format shift makes flying suddenly dominant, so buy it to play it, not to hold it.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.