Daggerfang Duo
Creature — Rat Squirrel
Deathtouch
When this creature enters, you may mill two cards. (You may put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Bloomburrow
- Price
- $0.15
- EDHREC rank
- #9747
Daggerfang Duo puts two bodies on the board for three mana and triggers on every Rat entering your battlefield — in the right shell, that snowballs fast. Vren, the Relentless is the headline home, where each new Rat token feeds directly back into the Duo's trigger and the engine compounds each turn.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Vren, the Relentless
Vren, the Relentless copies Rats and floods the board with tokens, and Daggerfang Duo turns every one of those enters-the-battlefield triggers into incremental pressure that keeps stacking without additional mana investment.
Camellia, the Seedmiser
Camellia, the Seedmiser cares about small creatures entering, and Daggerfang Duo's built-in token generation gives Camellia two triggers for the price of one cast — efficient redundancy in a deck that rewards volume.
Wick, the Whorled Mind
Wick, the Whorled Mind wants cheap, recurring bodies to copy and exploit, and Daggerfang Duo provides both a relevant creature type and a self-reinforcing enter trigger that Wick can duplicate for outsized value.
Ashcoat of the Shadow Swarm
Ashcoat of the Shadow Swarm buffs the whole Rat pack and gets stronger the wider the board, so Daggerfang Duo's ability to generate additional Rats on each enter event directly scales Ashcoat's payoffs.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Daggerfang Duo is a role-player rather than a staple — it earns its seat in Rat tribal specifically, and only if your commander actively rewards enter-the-battlefield volume. Outside of tribal, a three-mana 2/2 that makes a 1/1 is well below the curve for 100-card singleton. In 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer, it has no competitive presence; tribal synergy decks in those formats demand faster, more resilient payoffs. Pauper is the one place to watch — common creature-token synergies are real there, and if a Rat shell assembles, Daggerfang Duo is a free inclusion at bulk price.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.15 bulk tier
At $0.15, Daggerfang Duo is deep bulk — you're buying it for a tribal slot, not because it holds financial value. Don't expect movement; tribal commons at this price point stay flat unless a format-defining deck adopts them, and no such deck is on the horizon.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Vren, the Relentless
- Camellia, the Seedmiser
- Wick, the Whorled Mind
- Ashcoat of the Shadow Swarm
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.