Grandmother Sengir
Legendary Creature — Human Wizard
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: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Homelands
- Price
- $0.89
- EDHREC rank
- #28390
Grandmother Sengir costs six mana to put a 4/4 flier on the board with an activated ability that shrinks opposing creatures — reasonable stats, unreasonable price tag for what the effect actually accomplishes. At that cost, she needs to stabilize a board immediately, and she rarely does enough to justify the slot over faster threats.
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 |
Grandmother Sengir is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but sees essentially no competitive play in any of them. In Legacy and Vintage, six mana for a creature with a tap-to-weaken ability is decades behind the power curve. Commander is her only realistic home, and even there she struggles — six-mana creatures need either an immediate board impact or a combo payoff, and Grandmother Sengir offers a slow, incremental -1/-1 ability that doesn't close games. She's a flavourful option in Sengir tribal or vampire-themed builds but is outclassed by nearly every other six-drop in the format.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.89 bulk tier
At $0.89, Grandmother Sengir sits firmly in bulk rare territory, which is exactly where her gameplay impact puts her. The price is stable because demand is low and unlikely to spike — she doesn't enable combos, doesn't appear in competitive lists, and has no scarcity driving her up.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.