Grim Flowering
Sorcery
Draw a card for each creature card in your graveyard.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Commander 2014
- Price
- $0.14
- EDHREC rank
- #19400
Grim Flowering refills your hand equal to the number of creature cards in your graveyard — in the right deck, that's drawing six or eight cards for six mana. The catch is that six mana at sorcery speed buys nothing if your graveyard is thin, so this card lives or dies entirely by 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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Grim Flowering is a Commander card, full stop. The graveyard depth required to make it draw more than three cards essentially doesn't exist in sixty-card formats at competitive speed, and six mana at sorcery speed is simply unplayable in Legacy or Vintage, where it's technically legal. In Commander, it belongs specifically in creature-heavy graveyard strategies — Golgari and Sultai shells where bodies accumulate in the bin through sacrifice, self-mill, or repeated death triggers. Even there, it competes with cheaper or unconditional draw spells, so it earns its slot only when the deck reliably hits five-plus creatures in the graveyard by turn six.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.14 bulk tier
At $0.14, Grim Flowering is pure bulk — you're not paying for scarcity, you're paying for cardboard. That price is stable because demand is narrow: it's a niche payoff card with no competitive crossover, so there's no pressure pushing it up.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.