Drooling Groodion
Creature — Beast
, Sacrifice a creature: Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Another target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BG
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Duel Decks: Jace vs. Vraska
- Price
- $0.06
- EDHREC rank
- #29253
Drooling Groodion trades any creature you control for two life drain stapled to a 4/2 body — the effect is real, but five mana for a vanilla-statted creature that requires a sacrifice to do anything is a steep ask. It's a niche role-player in aristocrats shells that can use the drain as a finisher trigger, not a card you're jamming into a generic Golgari build.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Drooling Groodion is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it sees essentially zero play outside Commander. In Legacy and Vintage the competition at five mana is absurd, and a drain-two trigger attached to a sacrifice outlet doesn't come close to the power threshold those formats demand. In Commander it finds its narrowest-viable home in Golgari or Jund aristocrats decks that want a sacrifice outlet with a built-in life swing, though even there it competes with cheaper, more efficient options. Oathbreaker is theoretically viable but the same ceiling applies — five mana is a lot to commit to a fragile body with conditional upside.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.06 bulk tier
At $0.06, Drooling Groodion is deep bulk — the kind of card that shows up in bulk bins and draft chaff piles. Don't expect the price to move; there's no competitive demand pulling it up and the effect isn't scarce enough to generate casual demand either.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.