Grim Strider
Creature — Horror
This creature gets -1/-1 for each card in your hand.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Amonkhet
- Price
- $0.06
- EDHREC rank
- #28449
Grim Strider is a 4/3 with no evasion whose size depends entirely on your hand being empty — a condition most decks actively avoid. Unless you're building around discard or hellbent mechanics, this slot is better spent almost anywhere else.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Grim Strider is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but competitive play in any of those formats won't take it seriously. In Commander, the card wants a hellbent or madness shell — something like Asylum Visitor curves — but even then a 4/3 with no trample, flying, or haste is a poor payoff for emptying your hand. In older constructed formats like Legacy and Vintage, the bar for a vanilla-adjacent four-drop is simply too high to clear.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.06 bulk tier
At $0.06, Grim Strider is deep bulk — you'll find it in a common box long before you'd ever buy a copy. That price won't move; there's no sleeper demand waiting to be unlocked here.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.