Grizzled Wolverine
Creature — Wolverine
: This creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn. Activate only during the declare blockers step, only if at least one creature is blocking this creature, and only once each turn.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Ice Age
- Price
- $0.09
- EDHREC rank
- #30739
Grizzled Wolverine hits as a 4/1 for two mana — elite rate for aggro — but that power comes with a mandatory discard-a-card cost whenever it attacks. The ceiling is real in discard-matters builds; outside them, you're paying card disadvantage for a body that dies to a stiff breeze.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Grizzled Wolverine earns a slot only in decks that want to fill the graveyard or trigger discard synergies — think Anje Falkenrath, Waste Not strategies, or madness enablers. As a generic beater it's unplayable; the forced discard on attack bleeds resources too fast in a 99-card format where card advantage is already scarce. In Pauper it's legal but well outside the competitive metagame, where two-mana creatures need to generate immediate value rather than cost cards. Legacy and Vintage give it technically legal status, but neither format has any reason to register it.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.09 bulk tier
At $0.09, Grizzled Wolverine is deep bulk — the kind of card you pick out of a dollar box without thinking twice. Don't expect that price to move; niche discard synergy won't drive demand.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.