Damage Control Crew
Creature — Human Citizen
When this creature enters, choose one —
• Repair — Return target card with mana value 4 or greater from your graveyard to your hand.
• Impound — Exile target artifact or enchantment.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Through the Omenpaths
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #15092
Damage Control Crew enters the battlefield and immediately starts generating value by salvaging damaged or destroyed permanents, and the built-in Continue? mechanic means your opponents are constantly making uncomfortable choices. The cost is real — you're paying for a effect that depends on combat or damage steps to fire — but the upside in attrition games is hard to ignore.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Damage Control Crew earns its slot — 100-card singletons mean more redundancy gaps to fill, and the political pressure of Continue? scales with the number of opponents at the table. In 1v1 formats like Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, and Standard, the effect loses most of its teeth since there's no group dynamic to exploit and faster formats will punish a mid-range value creature. Damage Control Crew is a Commander card first, and everything else is incidental.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Continue?Phyrexian AltarDamage Control Crew
Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite colored mana; Infinite magecraft triggers; Infinite recursion of creatures you control; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite storm count
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Echocasting SymposiumDamage Control CrewTemporal Manipulation
Infinite turns; Lock
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Echocasting SymposiumDamage Control CrewWalk the Aeons
Infinite turns; Lock
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Echocasting SymposiumDamage Control CrewCapture of Jingzhou
Infinite turns; Lock
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Echocasting SymposiumDamage Control CrewTime Warp
Infinite turns; Lock
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.