Dross Ripper
Artifact Creature — Phyrexian Dog
: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Mirrodin Besieged
- Price
- $0.06
- EDHREC rank
- #30315
Dross Ripper enters as a 2/3 with menace and immediately draws you a card if you control an artifact — that's real board presence plus immediate card advantage for four mana. The cost is that four mana is a crowded slot and the body isn't threatening enough to demand an answer on its own.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Dross Ripper earns a slot in artifact-heavy decks that want incremental value and bodies — it's never the star but it replaces itself and attacks through smaller blockers. In Pauper, the common card-draw-on-an-artifact-creature space is competitive, and Dross Ripper's four-mana cost puts it behind cheaper options at the same rate; playable but not prioritized. Legacy and Vintage have zero interest — the card is simply too slow and too fair for those formats. Oathbreaker mirrors the Commander read: fine in artifact shells, invisible everywhere else.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.06 bulk tier
At $0.06, Dross Ripper is deep bulk — you'll find it in a common box before you'll find it on a singles site. Bulk commons don't appreciate, so there's no financial angle here; pick up as many copies as your artifact decks need and move on.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.