Dauntless Dismantler
Creature — Human Artificer
Artifacts your opponents control enter tapped.
, Sacrifice this creature: Destroy each artifact with mana value X.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- The Lost Caverns of Ixalan
- Price
- $0.31
- EDHREC rank
- #3196
Dauntless Dismantler can wipe every artifact and enchantment off the board for a single mana activation — the catch is paying one life per permanent destroyed, which scales painfully against heavily-stocked tables. Plagon, Lord of the Beach runs it anyway because the life payment becomes noise when you're converting it into board advantage elsewhere.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Plagon, Lord of the Beach
Plagon, Lord of the Beach appears in nearly half of all Plagon decks because Dauntless Dismantler's mass-destruction mode pairs with Plagon's life-gain and token-generation engines, letting you pay the life costs without stalling your own board state.
Winota, Joiner of Forces
Winota, Joiner of Forces wants Dauntless Dismantler as a Human body that doubles as an emergency answer — clearing out artifact-heavy opposition while still being a non-Human trigger target waiting to happen.
The Archimandrite
The Archimandrite leans on Dauntless Dismantler as a multi-type creature that fits the Human tribal shell while providing on-demand artifact and enchantment removal that scales to the threat on board.
Lavinia, Azorius Renegade
Lavinia, Azorius Renegade pairs naturally with Dauntless Dismantler because both cards punish opponents for playing outside normal resource curves — Lavinia locks down free spells while Dauntless Dismantler cleans up the permanents that slip through.
Ellivere of the Wild Court
Ellivere of the Wild Court includes Dauntless Dismantler primarily as an enchantment-hostile insurance policy: when opposing enchantments threaten to outpace your Aura-based gameplan, one activation at the right moment resets the board without requiring a dedicated removal slot.
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 |
In Commander, Dauntless Dismantler is a role-player with a ceiling — the life payment is trivial in four-player games where tables run bloated artifact and enchantment counts, making a full activation easily worth 10–20 life to reset the board. In Modern and Pioneer it sees fringe sideboard consideration in life-gain decks that can absorb the cost, but a three-mana 2/2 with a slow activation rarely survives the speed of those formats. Legacy and Vintage have access to better mass-removal at lower cost, so Dauntless Dismantler stays on the shelf there. Standard is where it sees the most competitive daylight outside Commander, particularly in aggressive white strategies that can leverage both the Human type and the threat of activation to lock opponents out of artifact synergies.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.31 bulk tier
At $0.31, Dauntless Dismantler is firmly bulk — pick it up in any trade binder without thinking twice. It has enough Commander demand to stay in print circulation but not enough competitive crossover to push the price up, so expect it to stay in this range.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Plagon, Lord of the Beach
- Winota, Joiner of Forces
- The Archimandrite
- Lavinia, Azorius Renegade
- Ellivere of the Wild Court
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.