Card
Rivaz of the Claw
Mana cost {1}{B}{R}
Legendary Creature — Lizard Warlock 3/3
Menace {T}: Add two mana in any combination of colors. Spend this mana only to cast Dragon creature spells. Once during each of your turns, you may cast a Dragon creature spell from your graveyard. Whenever you cast a Dragon creature spell from your graveyard, it gains "When this creature dies, exile it."
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. 6 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Rare · DMU · #215
- Cheapest printing
- €0.82
- EDHREC salt
- 0.29
- Color identity
- Black, Red
- Keywords
- Menace
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B2 Core — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B3 Upgraded — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- No Game Changer, mass land denial, extra turn, tutor or two-card combo
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
No known combos for this card.
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2022-09-09 · Wizards of the Coast
The casting permission granted by Rivaz’s third ability doesn’t change when you may cast the spell from your graveyard. - 2022-09-09 · Wizards of the Coast
The ability that the spell gains as Rivaz’s last ability resolves continues to apply to the permanent that spell becomes after the spell resolves, even if it stops being a Dragon or stops being a creature. - 2022-09-09 · Wizards of the Coast
The ability that the spell gains only applies to it once it’s on the battlefield. If the spell is countered before it resolves, that ability will not exile it. - 2022-09-09 · Wizards of the Coast
The last ability triggers when you cast a Dragon creature spell from your graveyard for any reason. It triggers even if you didn’t use mana generated by Rivaz’s activated ability to pay its costs. - 2022-09-09 · Wizards of the Coast
Once you begin casting a spell from your graveyard, it immediately moves to the stack. Players can’t take any other actions until you’re done casting the spell. - 2022-09-09 · Wizards of the Coast
You can use mana generated by the activated ability to pay an alternative cost (such as an escape cost) or an additional cost to cast a Dragon spell. It’s not limited to paying just that spell’s mana cost.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast