Clement, the Worrywort

Strategy & Gameplay

Clement, the Worrywort is a versatile three-mana legendary creature that serves as both a strategic powerhouse and enabler in green-blue tempo and creature-focused strategies. With a solid 3/3 body and vigilance, Clement can attack without tapping out, providing immediate pressure while maintaining defensive capabilities. The card's primary strength lies in its enter-the-battlefield trigger, which allows you to return a creature you control with lesser mana value to your hand, creating a powerful flicker engine that generates significant value each time you cast creatures. This mechanic is particularly potent in decks built around creature tokens, small utility creatures, and cards with valuable enter-the-battlefield effects, as you can repeatedly replay these creatures for additional triggers while protecting your board from threats. The third ability transforms your Frog tokens into mana accelerants, allowing them to tap for green or blue mana exclusively for casting creatures, effectively creating a small army of mana dorks that scale with your creature count. Clement fits naturally into creature-heavy strategies including Bant tokens, Simic creature ramp, and tempo decks that benefit from repeatedly cycling creatures in and out of play. The card excels in formats like Commander, Pioneer, and Modern where creature-based strategies have sufficient support, and its immediate impact makes it particularly strong in Standard and limited formats. Players seeking a commander that generates card advantage while maintaining board presence, or anyone building around creature synergies and token strategies, will find Clement an excellent inclusion that rewards interactive, creature-focused gameplay while providing the resource generation necessary to outvalue opponents in longer games.