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Dredging Claw

Artifact — Equipment2 generic mana

The reanimation trigger is the load-bearing clause, and it points at a very specific kind of deck. Equipment usually asks you to spend a card and mana getting it onto the body you want; this one solves half of that on its own by reattaching for free whenever a creature enters from your graveyard. That reframes it from a stat-stick into a payoff for a recursion engine: every loop that brings a body back also re-suits it, so the menace and the +1/+0 arrive without paying an equip cost as long as the creatures keep coming out of the yard. The mono-black equip cost tells you where it lives, but the free reattachment is graveyard-triggered, not hand-triggered, and that is the distinction the card is built around. Menace is the operative keyword rather than a flavor add-on, because a recursion deck that keeps redeploying evasive threats can grind through a stalled board that would otherwise wall a ground assault. Deployed cold, the card is a modest aggressive tool: a small buff and an evasion word for two mana up front, plus a black equip cost. Wired into a stream of creatures returning from the graveyard, it becomes an engine piece that never needs re-equipping by hand, which is a different card than the up-front rate suggests and the reason it reads as purpose-built rather than generic equipment filler.

Dredging Claw (bro)
BRO · #119common
Pricing
Normal: $0.20
Foil: $0.14
Oracle Text

Rules text

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 1 generic manaBlack mana (1 generic manaBlack mana: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
N/A
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Old School
N/A
Premodern
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PreDH
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Pauper Commander
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Oathbreaker
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Gladiator
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Penny Dreadful
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Duel Commander
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Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
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