Dredging Claw
Artifact — Equipment
Equipped creature gets +1/+0 and has menace. (It can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
Whenever a creature enters from your graveyard, you may attach this Equipment to it.
Equip 
(: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The Brothers' War
- Price
- $0.16
- EDHREC rank
- #22347
Dredging Claw is a one-mana artifact that equips for two and grants the equipped creature +1/+0 and the ability to surveil 1 whenever it attacks — modest stats stapled to a graveyard-filtering effect. It finds a home in dedicated self-mill or graveyard-value builds, but anywhere else it's too low-impact to justify the equipment slot.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Dredging Claw is a niche inclusion — graveyard decks that want redundant surveil triggers will consider it, but the two-mana equip cost makes it slow in a format where equipment competes hard for slots. In Pauper, the common designation matters, and surveil-matters or graveyard-recursion shells can extract real value from a one-mana artifact that filters every combat step. Modern and Legacy have access to far more efficient self-mill and graveyard-setup tools, so Dredging Claw doesn't crack competitive lists there. Pioneer sits in a similar position — serviceable in a budget brew, invisible in anything tuned.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.16 bulk tier
At $0.16, Dredging Claw is deep bulk — you're not paying for power, you're paying for a role-player in a specific archetype. It won't appreciate unless a future commander or mechanic makes surveil-on-attack genuinely broken, so pick it up only when a deck actually needs it.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.