Griffin Rider
Creature — Human Knight
As long as you control a Griffin creature, this creature gets +3/+3 and has flying.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Magic 2012
- Price
- $0.11
- EDHREC rank
- #24855
Griffin Rider is a 1/1 for two mana that only becomes relevant if you already control a Griffin — a condition Commander almost never sets up reliably. It's a parasitic build-around with too narrow a payoff to justify the slot in any competitive context.
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 |
Griffin Rider sees essentially no competitive play across any format. In Commander, the Griffin tribe lacks the critical mass and lord support to make a dedicated shell viable, so Griffin Rider sits as a fringe curiosity at best. In Pauper, where efficiency is everything, a conditional beater at two mana that does nothing on an empty board is simply outclassed. Legacy and Vintage have no interest in it. The card is legal nearly everywhere and meaningfully playable nowhere.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.11 bulk tier
At $0.11, Griffin Rider is deep bulk — the kind of card that fills a commons box but rarely a deck slot. Don't expect that price to move; demand is too low to push it anywhere.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.