Groom's Finery
Artifact — Equipment
Equipped creature gets +2/+0. It gets an additional +0/+2 and has deathtouch as long as an Equipment named Bride's Gown is attached to a creature you control.
Equip 
(: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Innistrad: Crimson Vow
- Price
- $0.07
- EDHREC rank
- #22635
Groom's Finery gives a creature +2/+2 and protection from the chosen color until end of turn for a single white mana — that's combat math and removal protection stapled together at instant speed. Narrow enough to rotate around the wrong choice, but at one mana, the floor is still an efficient combat trick.
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 |
In Commander, Groom's Finery earns its slot specifically in Voltron and combat-centric decks where dodging a single removal spell or pushing through a blocker of a known color wins the game on the spot. Competitive formats like Modern and Legacy have access to more flexible protection spells — Teferi's Protection, Sejiri Shelter, Even Gods Like Spells — that don't require guessing a color, so Groom's Finery doesn't make those 60-card cuts. Pioneer and Oathbreaker see it only in niche aggro builds where a one-mana pump-plus-protection at instant speed has legitimate tempo value. The color-choice restriction is the ceiling; one mana is the floor that keeps it relevant in budget Commander builds where efficiency matters more than versatility.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.07 bulk tier
At $0.07, Groom's Finery is deep bulk — the kind of card that ships in draft chaff lots and costs nothing to test. There's no price pressure driving it up, and no reason to expect any; pick it up for a quarter's worth of postage or pull it from a bulk box.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.