Grizzled Angler // Grisly Anglerfish
Creature — Human // Creature — Eldrazi Fish
: Mill two cards. Then if there is a colorless creature card in your graveyard, transform this creature. (To mill two cards, put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Innistrad Remastered
- Price
- $0.08
- EDHREC rank
- #24873
Grizzled Angler // Grisly Anglerfish exists almost entirely for its back face — a 6/6 that forces all creatures to attack it, strapped to a mill-a-colorless-card flip condition that's narrow enough to make the front side near-unplayable outside dedicated support. The cost is real: you need a deck that runs colorless creatures or can manipulate the top of your library, and even then you're jumping through hoops to land a single blocker.
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 |
Grizzled Angler // Grisly Anglerfish is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but sees meaningful play in none of them. In Commander it has a narrow home in Eldrazi-heavy decks or mill-adjacent strategies where the colorless mill trigger actually fires, and the Grisly Anglerfish back face can act as a pseudo-Fog by taxing the board into attacking into a wall. Elsewhere — Legacy, Modern, Pioneer — the hoops required to flip it are incompatible with competitive timelines, and neither face is efficient enough to justify the slot.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.08 bulk tier
At $0.08, Grizzled Angler // Grisly Anglerfish sits firmly in bulk territory and will stay there — the flip condition is too narrow to drive demand, and the Grisly Anglerfish effect isn't unique enough to create a price floor. Pick it up freely from a bulk bin; there's no reason to pay more.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.