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Misthollow Griffin

Creature — Griffin

Flying
You may cast this card from exile.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{2}{U}{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
mythic
Set
Avacyn Restored
Price
$2.29
EDHREC rank
#8223
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Misthollow Griffin card art
Misthollow Griffin is a niche card with one job: enabling Food Chain combos by acting as the exile-castable creature that generates infinite mana when looped through it. Outside of that engine, a 3/3 flyer for four mana is unplayable in Commander — Cazur, Ruthless Stalker // Ukkima, Stalking Shadow decks run it as a combo piece, full stop.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Cazur, Ruthless StalkerUkkima, Stalking Shadow

Cazur, Ruthless Stalker // Ukkima, Stalking Shadow

22.8% of decks · synergy 0.21

Cazur, Ruthless Stalker // Ukkima, Stalking Shadow is the premier home for Misthollow Griffin because the Food Chain combo is central to the deck's win condition — Griffin's exile-castable clause lets it loop through Food Chain indefinitely, generating infinite colored mana to cast the entire deck.

02
Atraxa, Grand Unifier

Atraxa, Grand Unifier

18.9% of decks · synergy 0.15

Atraxa, Grand Unifier decks that run the Food Chain line include Misthollow Griffin as one of the exile-castable creatures needed to go infinite, and Atraxa's broad color identity means the full combo package fits cleanly.

03
The Master, Transcendent

The Master, Transcendent

12.8% of decks · synergy 0.11

The Master, Transcendent builds lean on exile-zone interaction and recursive creatures, making Misthollow Griffin a natural fit — its ability to be cast from exile synergizes with The Master's strategy of recurring and reusing creatures outside the graveyard.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Misthollow Griffin is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but its real home is Commander, where the Food Chain combo it enables is both legal and powerful. In Legacy, the Food Chain combo has seen fringe play, but faster and more redundant combo decks crowd it out. Modern has the legal card pool but the format's speed makes a four-mana 3/3 with no immediate impact unviable outside of a dedicated combo shell that simply isn't competitive there. Vintage has access to everything but no reason to reach for a slow Griffin when the format is defined by one-mana broken spells. Commander is where Misthollow Griffin earns its slot.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$2.29 cheap tier

At $2.29, Misthollow Griffin sits in the cheap tier — low cost for a card with a genuinely unique ability that can't be replicated by a cheaper substitute in its combo. It holds value because Food Chain decks need it specifically, and that demand is narrow but stable.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.