Diving Griffin
Creature — Griffin
Flying, vigilance
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Eighth Edition
- Price
- $0.16
- EDHREC rank
- #21207
Diving Griffin is a vanilla 2/2 flyer for four mana — a rate so far below the curve that it competes with nothing in any serious list. There is no shell where this is the right card.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Diving Griffin is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legality is not relevance. In Pauper, where commons are the floor, a 2/2 flyer for four still falls short of options like Serra Sphinx or even Wind Drake. In Legacy and Vintage the card doesn't register. Commander runs 99 slots and still has no room for it — white alone offers dozens of four-mana flyers that either come bigger, carry an ETB, or both. Across every format where Diving Griffin is legal, it is outclassed.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.16 bulk tier
At $0.16, Diving Griffin is deep bulk — the kind of card that fills a box and never leaves it. That price won't move; there is no competitive demand to drive it anywhere.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.