The Infamous Cruelclaw
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
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.
Rulings
4 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2024-07-26
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.
- 2024-07-26
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.
- 2024-07-26
If the spell you cast has X in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X.
- 2024-07-26
If you choose not to cast the exiled card, it remains in exile.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes The Infamous Cruelclaw, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dihada, Binder of Wills | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Mardu 1 deck
The Infamous Cruelclaw price history
The Bloomburrow #219 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly. Click any version below to chart its price.
Every recorded price change
| Date | Non-foil | Foil |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 27, 2026 | $1.31 | $2.35 |
| Oct 26, 2026 | $1.30 | $2.35 |
| Oct 25, 2026 | $1.28 | $2.35 |
| Oct 24, 2026 | $1.32 | $2.36 |
| Oct 23, 2026 | $1.33 | $2.36 |
| Oct 22, 2026 | $1.38 | $2.39 |
| Oct 21, 2026 | $1.35 | $2.39 |
| Oct 20, 2026 | $1.52 | $2.39 |
| Oct 19, 2026 | $1.52 | $2.33 |
| Oct 18, 2026 | $1.43 | $2.37 |
| Oct 17, 2026 | $1.43 | $2.40 |
| Oct 16, 2026 | $1.41 | $2.40 |
| Oct 15, 2026 | $1.43 | $2.40 |
| Oct 14, 2026 | $1.40 | $2.37 |
| Oct 13, 2026 | $1.41 | $2.37 |
| Oct 12, 2026 | $1.42 | $2.37 |
| Oct 11, 2026 | $1.39 | $2.37 |
| Oct 9, 2026 | $1.46 | $2.37 |
| Oct 7, 2026 | $1.57 | $2.33 |
| Oct 6, 2026 | $1.62 | $2.28 |
| Oct 5, 2026 | $1.64 | $2.31 |
| Oct 4, 2026 | $1.57 | $2.34 |
| Oct 3, 2026 | $1.54 | $2.34 |
| Oct 2, 2026 | $1.54 | $2.31 |
| Oct 1, 2026 | $1.50 | $2.31 |
| Sep 30, 2026 | $1.45 | $2.37 |
| Sep 29, 2026 | $1.47 | $2.36 |
| Sep 28, 2026 | $1.42 | $2.36 |
A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.
Every version of The Infamous Cruelclaw
4 printings, 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. Click a card's art to chart that version's price above.
- Normal
- $1.31
- Foil
- $2.35
Promo
Bloomburrow Promos
- Normal
- $1.56
- Foil
- $1.66
Promo
Bloomburrow Promos
- Foil
- $6.95
Showcase
- Normal
- $2.21
- Foil
- $5.31
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for The Infamous Cruelclaw. 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.
