Clay Revenant
Artifact Creature — Golem
This creature enters tapped.
: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The Brothers' War
- Price
- $0.14
- EDHREC rank
- #14967
Clay Revenant is a self-recurring discard outlet that generates consistent value in any deck that rewards pitching cards — cast it once, discard it to trigger Bone Miser, and it climbs back out of the graveyard on its own. The cost is real: it enters tapped, it's a 1/1, and the recur tax adds up — but Ashnod, Flesh Mechanist turns every revival into an artifact token and makes that tax irrelevant.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Ashnod, Flesh Mechanist
Ashnod, Flesh Mechanist's triggered ability fires every time Clay Revenant returns from the graveyard, converting each self-recur into a free Powerstone token that offsets the discard cost and fuels the next loop.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Clay Revenant earns its slot specifically in discard-matters and graveyard-value builds — it's not a staple, but in the right shell it's a reliable engine piece that never fully goes away. Pauper is where it has the most competitive upside: recursive creatures that generate card-type diversity or fuel threshold effects are genuinely hard to answer at common, and Clay Revenant's grind factor is real in a format with limited removal density. In Modern and Legacy it's a niche pick at best, outclassed by faster recursive threats, though it could find a home in a dedicated discard synergy deck that needs a cheap, persistent outlet. Pioneer is similarly marginal unless a specific discard archetype emerges that wants a budget option with legs.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Clay RevenantBone MiserSkirge FamiliarAshnod's Altar
Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite self-discard triggers
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Current price
$0.14 bulk tier
At $0.14, Clay Revenant is deep bulk — you're grabbing it out of a commons box, not tracking it down. Bulk commons with genuine Commander applications tend to stay flat, so don't expect movement, but there's no reason to hesitate at this price point.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.