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The Infamous Cruelclaw

First printed in Bloomburrow (2024)

All 4 prints

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The Infamous Cruelclaw

Legendary Creature — Weasel Mercenary

Menace
Whenever The Infamous Cruelclaw deals combat damage to a player, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card. You may cast that card by discarding a card rather than paying its mana cost.

3/3

Illustrated by
Christina Kraus

Legality

Rulings (4)

  • You cast the exiled card while the ability is resolving and still on the stack. You can’t wait to cast it later in the turn. Timing restrictions based on the card’s type are ignored.
  • Since you are using an alternative cost to cast the spell, you can’t pay any other alternative costs. You can, however, pay additional costs, such as kicker costs. If the card has any mandatory additional costs, you must pay those.
  • If the spell you cast has X in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X.
  • If you choose not to cast the exiled card, it remains in exile.

Prices

MTGO price: 0.006 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 1 Nov 2026).

In Limited on MTG Arena

Win rates in Arena drafts and sealed, retrieved from 17Lands (CC BY 4.0).

Win rates of The Infamous Cruelclaw in Limited
Set GIH WR vs set IWD Games
Bloomburrow (BLB), Premier Draft 53.9% -0.7 0.0 5345
Bloomburrow (BLB), Sealed 54.6% -0.9 +0.9 548
GIH WR
win rate of the games in which the card was in the opening hand or drawn
vs set
points above or below the average win rate of all decks in the set
IWD
improvement when drawn: GIH WR minus the win rate when the card stayed in the library
Games
games in which the card was seen

Commander In 5 of 6520 decks (0.1%), most in The Infamous Cruelclaw

Share of decks
0.1%
▲ 0.1 vs previous 30 days
2026-08-17: 0.0% 2026-08-24: 0.1% 2026-08-31: 0.0% 2026-09-07: 0.0% 2026-09-14: 0.0% 2026-09-21: 0.0% 2026-09-28: 0.1% 2026-10-05: 0.0% 2026-10-12: 0.2% 2026-10-19: 0.0% 2026-10-26: 0.1%
Weekly, last 90 days
Decks
5
5 main, 0 sideboard
Avg. copies
1.0
in the main deck
Win rate
20%
0 top 8 (challenges only)

Archetypes by metagame share

Archetype Meta Play it
The Infamous Cruelclaw 0.1% 100%
Vaevictis Asmadi, the Dire 0.0% 100%

Played together with

Card Together Lift
Command Tower100%1.2
Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre80%101.8
Luxury Suite80%21.3
Hit the Mother Lode60%496.1
Rise of the Eldrazi60%180.4
Call Forth the Tempest60%165.4
Valgavoth, Terror Eater60%124.0
Blightsteel Colossus60%76.3
Shizo, Death's Storehouse60%73.5
Bojuka Bog60%62.0

Best win rate

DeckRecord
The Infamous Cruelclaw
Aspen Mitchell-Saint Aubin in IDubz Seasonal Series 4 Season 2
1-4
20%

Challenges only: MTGO publishes only the 5-0 league decks.

Latest decks

DeckCopiesFinish
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