Dutiful Griffin
Creature — Griffin
Flying
, Sacrifice two enchantments: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Wilds of Eldraine
- Price
- $0.09
- EDHREC rank
- #26072
Dutiful Griffin is a 2/4 flyer for five mana with no enters-the-battlefield effect, no evasion beyond flying, and no text beyond a creature type — a statline that was underpowered at printing and hasn't aged into relevance. There are strictly better options at every point on the curve, and no shell exists where Dutiful Griffin is the correct card.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Dutiful Griffin is legal in every major constructed format and Commander, but legality and playability are different things. In Commander, a 2/4 flyer for five mana competes with an enormous pool of white creatures that generate value on entry, pump a team, or combo with the command zone — Dutiful Griffin does none of that. In competitive formats like Modern, Pioneer, and Legacy, the card is simply non-functional; those formats demand efficiency Dutiful Griffin cannot offer at any cost. Even in casual Standard environments at the time of printing, it sat at the bottom of the curve-to-power ratio. Across every format where it's legal, it's a bulk common that fills a slot better occupied by almost anything else.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.09 bulk tier
At $0.09, Dutiful Griffin sits firmly in bulk territory — the kind of price that reflects genuine demand of nearly zero rather than a hidden bargain. It won't lose value because it essentially has none, and there's no competitive application or spike potential that would push it higher.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.