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Dogmeat, Ever Loyal

Legendary Creature — Dog

When Dogmeat enters, mill five cards, then return an Aura or Equipment card from your graveyard to your hand.
Whenever a creature you control that's enchanted or equipped attacks, create a Junk token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Exile the top card of your library. You may play that card this turn. Activate only as a sorcery.")

CMC
3
Mana cost
{R}{G}{W}
Color identity
GRW
Rarity
mythic
Set
Fallout
Price
$11.09
EDHREC rank
#8689
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Dogmeat, Ever Loyal card art
Dogmeat, Ever Loyal generates a free Aura from your graveyard every time a creature with a counter enters under your control — that's a repeatable engine that snowballs fast in any deck stacking +1/+1 counters or token production. The combo potential with Jinnie Fay, Jetmir's Second and Preston Garvey, Minuteman is real, and five mana for a 3/3 that does this every turn is a reasonable rate.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Preston Garvey, Minuteman

Preston Garvey, Minuteman

38.1% of decks · synergy 0.37

Preston Garvey, Minuteman creates Humans with +1/+1 counters whenever you gain life, which triggers Dogmeat, Ever Loyal on every token — turning a life-gain loop into a chain of free Auras that suit up your board faster than opponents can answer it.

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

Commander is where Dogmeat, Ever Loyal lives — as a commander it defines your game plan around Aura recursion and counter synergies, and in the 99 it slots cleanly into any Selesnya or Abzan deck that cares about +1/+1 counters. Legacy and Vintage are technically legal but the card does nothing in those formats; the creature types and ability design are built for the long-game multiplayer context, not for 20-life heads-up. Oathbreaker could support it in a counters shell but the format sees little play, so Commander remains the clear home by a wide margin.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

There's no clean budget swap that replicates what Dogmeat, Ever Loyal does — free Aura recursion on a creature-enters trigger is a fairly unique effect. For decks that just want repeatable Aura value, Kor Spiritdancer or Sram, Senior Edificer cover the card-draw side of the equation at under a dollar each, though neither generates tokens or recurs from the graveyard the way Dogmeat does.

Price Context

Current price

$11.09 mid tier

At $11.09, Dogmeat, Ever Loyal sits in the mid tier — justified for a commander with a built-in engine, but worth scrutiny in the 99 where other counters payoffs compete for that slot. As a creature tied to a licensed IP set, supply is fixed, so the price is unlikely to crater unless a reprint appears in a Commander precon.

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