Daraja Griffin
Creature — Griffin
Flying
Sacrifice this creature: Destroy target black creature.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Classic Sixth Edition
- Price
- $0.23
- EDHREC rank
- #22893
Daraja Griffin trades its life to destroy a target black creature — a narrow, one-shot removal effect stapled to a 2/3 flyer for four mana. The cost is steep: you're paying four mana and a creature to answer one specific color, which is a bad deal in almost every Commander pod.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Daraja Griffin is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but sees essentially no play in any of them. In Commander, color-hate removal is too situational — black is common, but paying four mana and sacrificing the creature to kill one target is a losing trade when Swords to Plowshares and Path to Exile exist at one mana. Legacy and Vintage have access to the full suite of efficient white removal, so a four-mana conditional answer has no competitive foothold. Daraja Griffin is an obsolete design that predates modern removal standards.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.23 bulk tier
At $0.23, Daraja Griffin is deep bulk — the kind of card that fills out bargain bins without generating demand. The price is unlikely to move meaningfully in either direction; there's no Commander archetype or combo context that would drive renewed interest.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.