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Dingus Staff

Artifact

Whenever a creature dies, this artifact deals 2 damage to that creature's controller.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{4}
Color identity
C
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Weatherlight
Price
$1.39
EDHREC rank
#11118
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Dingus Staff card art
Dingus Staff drains each opponent for 2 every time a creature dies — in a four-player game with a populated board, that adds up to lethal faster than it looks. Soul Warden this is not; the Staff rewards you for sitting back and watching the table kill each other, and it costs two mana to cast plus two to equip, which is cheap enough that it's never a real ask. Run it when your gameplan involves Phelddagrif handing out hippos, mass token generation, or any boardstate where creatures are expected to die in bulk.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Phelddagrif

Phelddagrif

32.8% of decks · synergy 0.32

Phelddagrif spends the whole game gifting opponents flying hippo tokens, and Dingus Staff turns every one of those tokens dying in combat into 2 damage to its owner — the political engine that looks like generosity becomes a slow bleed. The inclusion rate above 32% reflects how cleanly these two pieces line up.

02
Darien, King of Kjeldor

Darien, King of Kjeldor

31.8% of decks · synergy 0.31

Darien, King of Kjeldor generates a soldier whenever you take damage, which means any damage-based wipe or combat step can flood the board with creatures — and Dingus Staff punishes anyone who tries to answer that board by wiping it. The interaction is tight enough that Darien lists run it at nearly the same rate as Phelddagrif lists.

03
Mogis, God of Slaughter

Mogis, God of Slaughter

14.7% of decks · synergy 0.14

Mogis, God of Slaughter forces opponents to sacrifice creatures or take damage every upkeep, and Dingus Staff makes the sacrifice mode just as painful as the damage mode. It's pure redundancy for a deck already built to make every decision feel bad.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Dingus Staff is a Commander card through and through — the four-player structure is what makes its passive drain meaningful, since multiplying 2 damage across three opponents and dozens of creatures per turn creates real pressure. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but essentially invisible; the formats are too fast and too focused on two-player lines for a slow artifact that needs creatures to die in quantity. Oathbreaker is a reasonable home for the same reason Commander is — multiplayer games, token strategies, and sacrifice synergies all exist there. Outside those multiplayer contexts, Dingus Staff does not have a competitive home.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$1.39 cheap tier

At $1.39, Dingus Staff sits firmly in the bulk-rare tier — cheap enough to include without a second thought in any deck that wants it. It's a narrow card with a specific audience, so don't expect that price to move; it'll stay in the dollar bin indefinitely.

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