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Crookclaw Transmuter

Creature — Bird Wizard

Flash
Flying
When this creature enters, switch target creature's power and toughness until end of turn.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{3}{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
common
Set
Conspiracy
Price
$0.06
EDHREC rank
#24049
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Crookclaw Transmuter card art
Crookclaw Transmuter flips a creature's power and toughness on the spot — flash and flying make it both a combat trick and a removal spell for anything with 0 power. The cost is a 3/1 body that dies to a stiff breeze, but the real engine is pairing it with Task Force, which turns that toughness-swap trigger into an arbitrarily large creature.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper legal
oathbreaker legal

Crookclaw Transmuter sees essentially zero play in Legacy, Vintage, or Modern — the effect is too narrow and the body too fragile to compete in those formats. In Pauper it has occasional niche presence as a combat trick in blue tempo shells, though it rarely makes cuts. Commander is where it actually matters: the Task Force combo is a known infinite-toughness line, and any blue commander that cares about untap triggers, flicker, or toughness-matters strategies gives Crookclaw Transmuter a real reason to exist.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.06 bulk tier

At $0.06, Crookclaw Transmuter is pure bulk — you're not buying it for value, you're buying it because the combo costs almost nothing to assemble. That price is unlikely to move unless a high-profile Task Force deck pushes demand, which hasn't happened.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.