Dingus Egg
Artifact
Whenever a land is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, this artifact deals 2 damage to that land's controller.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Fourth Edition
- Price
- $0.57
- EDHREC rank
- #15344
Dingus Egg makes every land destruction spell deal 2 damage to the owner — a static punishment that compounds fast when you're blowing up multiple lands per turn. Zo-Zu the Punisher already taxes players for playing lands; pair them and you're draining opponents on both axes simultaneously.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Zo-Zu the Punisher
Zo-Zu the Punisher is the natural home for Dingus Egg — Zo-Zu punishes lands entering play, the Egg punishes lands leaving it, and together they bracket every land-based action an opponent takes with a damage trigger.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Dingus Egg is a niche piece in dedicated land destruction or stax builds — it does nothing without a gameplan to kill lands, but in the right shell it punishes every Wasteland activation, every Armageddon, every Strip Mine across three opponents at once. Legacy and Vintage have access to the land destruction necessary to make it sting, but dedicated land-kill decks are rare there and Dingus Egg never cracked either format's competitive scene. Modern can run it legally, though the payoff is too slow and conditional to see serious play.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.57 bulk tier
At $0.57, Dingus Egg is pure bulk — low demand keeps it there, and nothing on the horizon changes that. It's an easy inclusion for the penny bin of any land destruction Commander build.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.