Armored Griffin
Creature — Griffin
Flying, vigilance
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Masters Edition II
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #22430
Armored Griffin is a 3/4 flyer with vigilance for four mana — solid stats, real evasion, and the ability to attack without tapping into your defenses. The cost is that white has better options at this slot in nearly every competitive context, so Armored Griffin lives firmly in casual and budget territory.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Armored Griffin is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but the formats where it actually earns a slot are narrow. Pauper is its best home — a 3/4 vigilant flyer at common is genuinely above the format's baseline, and the stat-to-cost ratio holds up when your pool is restricted. In Commander, Armored Griffin is outclassed by a long list of four-mana white creatures that either generate value on entry or close games faster; it's a card for early Commander collections, not tuned lists. Legacy and Vintage are non-starters — the competition at every mana value is too stiff for a vanilla-adjacent creature.
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Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data for Armored Griffin isn't currently available, but as a common creature with no competitive demand, copies routinely show up in bulk bins and reprinted sets for well under a dollar. If you need one, a bulk purchase or trade binder is the right place to look rather than a singles marketplace.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.