Cradle Clearcutter card art

Cradle Clearcutter

Artifact Creature — Golem MV 6

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What it does

Prototype 2 — 1/3 (You may cast this spell with different mana cost, color, and size. It keeps its abilities and types.)

T: Add an amount of equal to this creature's power.

Combos with Cradle Clearcutter

The lines this card is part of, what it needs alongside it, and what the cards do together. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.

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Rulings

7 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2022-10-14

    A prototype card is a colorless card in every zone except the stack or the battlefield, as well as while on the stack or the battlefield if not cast as a prototyped spell. Ignore its alternative characteristics in those cases. For example, while it's in your graveyard, Blitz Automaton is a colorless creature card with mana value 7. It can't be the target of Recommission, a spell that targets an artifact or creature card with mana value 3 or less in your graveyard.

  • 2022-10-14

    Casting a prototyped spell isn't the same as casting it for an alternative cost, and an alternative cost may be applied to a spell cast this way. For example, if an effect allows you to cast an artifact card without paying its mana cost, you could either cast Blitz Automaton normally, or as a prototyped spell.

  • 2022-10-14

    If an effect copies a prototyped spell, that copy (as well as the token it becomes on the battlefield) will have the same characteristics as the prototyped spell. Similarly, if an effect creates a token that's a copy of a prototyped permanent or causes another permanent to become a copy of it, the copy would have the same characteristics as the prototyped permanent.

  • 2022-10-14

    When casting a prototyped spell, use only its prototype characteristics to determine whether it's legal to cast it. For example, if Blitz Automaton is exiled with the last ability of Chandra, Dressed to Kill, you would be able to cast it for 2 (because it's a red spell), even though you wouldn't be able to cast it as a colorless spell for its normal cost.

  • 2022-10-14

    The prototype ability functions in any zone that the spell could be cast from. For example, if an effect allows you to cast artifact spells from your graveyard, you could cast a prototyped Blitz Automaton from your graveyard.

  • 2022-10-14

    When cast as a prototyped spell, that spell has the mana cost, power, and toughness characteristics shown in its colored, secondary text box rather than the normal values of those characteristics. Its color and mana value are determined by that mana cost. The permanent that spell becomes as it resolves has the same characteristics. If the spell leaves the stack in any other way, or the permanent it becomes leaves the battlefield, it immediately resumes using its normal characteristics.

  • 2022-10-14

    Regardless of how it was cast, a prototype card always has the same name, abilities, types, and so on. Only the mana cost, mana value, color, power, and toughness change depending on whether the card was cast as a prototyped spell.

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Cradle Clearcutter, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 1
Games played 0
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games, which is not enough to publish a rate yet.
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Acolyte of Bahamut 1 0 —
Renari, Merchant of Marvels 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Simic 1 deck

Cradle Clearcutter price history

The The Brothers' War #198 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly.

Non-foil today$0.15▼ $0.01 (6.3%)
Low $0.15 · High $0.17Tracked since Sep 28, 2026
Every recorded price change
DateNon-foilFoil
Oct 13, 2026$0.15$0.36
Oct 7, 2026$0.15$0.35
Oct 2, 2026$0.16$0.35
Oct 1, 2026$0.17$0.35
Sep 28, 2026$0.16$0.35

A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.

Every version of Cradle Clearcutter

1 printing, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly. A printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall publishes none for some of them.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Cradle Clearcutter. It runs a name search across every version, which covers the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.

Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only. No individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.

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