Grizzled Outrider
Creature — Elf Warrior
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Kaldheim
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #18508
Grizzled Outrider puts a 5/5 body on the board for five mana — vanilla, no text, no tricks. The cost is exactly that lack of text: outside of Ruxa, Patient Professor, where having no abilities is the entire point, it's outclassed by nearly every other five-drop in green.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Ruxa, Patient Professor
Ruxa, Patient Professor buffs creatures with no abilities and lets them ignore blockers with the same quality, making Grizzled Outrider's blank text box a feature — a 6/6 that punches through almost anything is a real threat in that shell.
Jasmine Boreal of the Seven
Jasmine Boreal of the Seven similarly rewards vanilla creatures, and Grizzled Outrider is one of the biggest no-text bodies green can field, slotting cleanly into her go-wide beatdown plan.
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, Grizzled Outrider is a niche role-player: it belongs in Ruxa, Patient Professor lists and almost nowhere else, since five mana for a vanilla 5/5 is simply below rate in a format where every permanent needs to pull weight. Pauper is where the math gets interesting — a 5/5 at common for five mana clears the vanilla test there, and it sees occasional play in green stompy shells that just want the biggest body per mana. In Modern, Pioneer, Legacy, and Vintage, Grizzled Outrider never sees play; those formats have efficient threats that do far more for the same or less mana.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Grizzled Outrider is deep bulk — buy a dozen copies without thinking twice. Price stability is a non-issue: it's a common with a narrow home, and that ceiling stays right where it is.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.