Corpse Cur
Artifact Creature — Phyrexian Dog
Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)
When this creature enters, you may return target creature card with infect from your graveyard to your hand.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Scars of Mirrodin
- Price
- $0.36
- EDHREC rank
- #11520
Corpse Cur enters the battlefield and immediately retrieves any infect creature from your graveyard, turning every removal spell your opponents aim at your board into a temporary inconvenience. The cost is a four-mana 2/2, which is slow — but in Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon builds that want Molten Echoes triggers and recursive infect threats, the enter-the-battlefield text does enough work to justify the slot.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon
Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon decks run a small suite of infect threats, so losing any one of them to removal is genuinely painful — Corpse Cur snaps that creature back on entry, keeping the poison clock ticking without spending a dedicated recursion spell.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Corpse Cur is a Commander card almost exclusively — the infect keyword has no competitive presence in Legacy, Vintage, or Modern, and a four-mana 2/2 with a situational enters-the-battlefield trigger doesn't clear the bar in those formats under any circumstances. Pauper is where it technically sees fringe play, since infect is one of that format's recognized aggressive archetypes and Corpse Cur provides a recursion effect that common-only card pools otherwise struggle to find. In Commander, it belongs specifically in infect-centric builds, not as a generic goodstuff inclusion.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Corpse CurMolten EchoesAshnod's Altar
Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite storm count
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Corpse CurMolten EchoesKrark-Clan Ironworks
Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite storm count
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Current price
$0.36 bulk tier
At $0.36, Corpse Cur is deep bulk — a card you're more likely to find in a bargain bin than to actively purchase. Bulk infect staples don't tend to spike unless a new commander pushes the archetype into popularity, so treat it as a cheap include rather than anything to acquire in quantity.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.