20 Rivaz of the Claw is a Small But Essential Creature For Any Dragon Deck Appears in 3,102 EDHrec Decks Rivaz of the Claw may be the least impressive among MTG 's best Dragon creatures, but it still ranks among them because it's small yet essential for any Dragon kindred deck
Playing this card for its sneak cost also gives you that first player combat damage trigger for free, provided your opponent doesn't counter the spell
The Champions of Kamigawa design team realized early in design that legends were a good fit for the set both flavor-wise and mechanically
With Michelangelo, Weirdness to 11, it plays heavily with the new mutagen token and generates one when it enters play, but then anytime one or more +1/+1 counters are placed upon a creature, it allows for one extra counter to be added
They are not powerful because they are powerful, they are powerful because they do a broadly useful thing and only that thing in a cheap and focused way
The wordplay of Eldrazi liking "odd" things tickled my funny bone, and I appreciated them caring about something that no one else ever cares about
