Bayou Groff
Creature — Plant Dog
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature or pay 
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- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Strixhaven: School of Mages
- Price
- $0.09
- EDHREC rank
- #18975
Bayou Groff puts a 5/4 on the board for two mana — that's an absurd rate, and the cost is sacrificing a creature or paying three extra, both of which are either upside or irrelevant depending on the deck. Run Bayou Groff in any shell that wants cheap sacrifice fodder converted into a large body; ignore it everywhere else.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Bayou Groff is a role-player in aristocrats and sacrifice decks that generate disposable tokens — you're rarely paying the full five mana, and a 5/4 for two is a meaningful clock or blocker even in the late game. Pauper is where it has the most competitive relevance, slotting into green creature-sacrifice shells that can reliably feed it on turn two. In Modern and Pioneer the bar for a vanilla 5/4 is higher and the sacrifice outlets are more contested, so Bayou Groff sits behind payoffs that do more on resolution. Legacy and Vintage have no interest — the power ceiling there makes a 5/4 with no enters-the-battlefield effect invisible.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.09 bulk tier
At $0.09, Bayou Groff is deep bulk — you're picking these out of a common box, not tracking them on a buylist. Bulk commons with narrow homes don't appreciate, so treat it as a free inclusion if the deck calls for it and nothing more.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.