Grim Draugr
Snow Creature — Zombie Berserker
: This creature gets +1/+0 and gains menace until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by two or more creatures. can be paid with one mana from a snow source.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Kaldheim
- Price
- $0.07
- EDHREC rank
- #18309
Grim Draugr is a snowfall payoff that generates a 2/2 Zombie token whenever you put a snow counter on it — cheap fuel for go-wide strategies if your deck already runs snow permanents. The catch is that the engine only fires with dedicated snow support, making Grim Draugr a role-player rather than a generalist, and Jorn, God of Winter is basically the one Commander who turns that conditional into a consistent engine.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Jorn, God of Winter
Jorn, God of Winter untaps snow permanents on attack, which chains directly into the tap-to-pay costs that load snow counters onto Grim Draugr and crank out Zombie tokens at a pace most go-wide payoffs can't match without dedicated support.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Grim Draugr is a niche inclusion that belongs almost exclusively in snow-tribal builds — outside of Jorn, God of Winter and a handful of Sultai snow commanders, the snow-counter requirement leaves it stranded. In Pauper it's technically legal but too slow and conditional to compete with more efficient token producers at common. Modern and Pioneer have the snow infrastructure to support it, but dedicated snow aggro hasn't broken through those formats, so Grim Draugr remains a curio rather than a staple. Legacy and Vintage have no meaningful snow context where this card does anything relevant.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.07 bulk tier
At $0.07, Grim Draugr is deep bulk — the kind of card you pick up as a throw-in rather than a purchase. That price is stable by definition: there's no competitive demand to push it up, and the snow-tribal ceiling keeps it from spiking.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Jorn, God of Winter
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.