Hero card

Hired Claw

Creature – Lizard Mercenary

PayoffThe more of what it needs is on the battlefield, the stronger it gets: the deck has to feed it a lot

Needs: Attack Triggers, Lizard

Gives: Counter +1/+1, Outlaw / Crime

In 7% of today's winning lists

Build a deck with Hired Claw as the hero

Makes it work

Gev, Scaled Scorch · Valley Flamecaller · Master of Barbs · Fireglass Mentor · Flamecache Gecko · Ravine Raider · Thought-Stalker Warlock · Iridescent Vinelasher

Winning decks play them together

Shock · Plasma Bolt · Stingerquill Charm · Stinging Vitriol · Lightning Strike · Scorching Shot · Boltwave · Fire-Brained Scheme

Use instead if you don't have it

Marauding Mako · Blazing Bomb · Greasewrench Goblin · Rizna, the Spider-Crowned · Spinneret and Spiderling · Lecturing Scornmage

Winning decks that play it

Rakdos Lizard (4) · Izzet Wizard (4) · Mono-Red Aggro (4) · Izzet Aggro (4)

Cards in the meta that answer it

Requiting Hex (Dimir Aggro) · Burst Lightning (Izzet Elemental) · Countersculpt (Azorius Control) · Get Lost (Azorius Control)