Noxious Groodion
Creature — Beast
Deathtouch
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Ravnica Allegiance
- Price
- $0.11
- EDHREC rank
- #27521
Noxious Groodion enters the battlefield and immediately drains each opponent for 1 while gaining you 3 life — real, immediate pressure without requiring any setup. The cost of four mana for a 3/3 with deathtouch is fair, not exciting, but the lifelink-adjacent ETB is what you're actually paying for.
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, Noxious Groodion slots cleanly into aristocrats and sacrifice shells where repeated ETB triggers compound the drain — blink and reanimate strategies extract the most value from it. Pauper is where it sees its most competitive daylight: the combination of deathtouch, a three-opponent drain in multiplayer-adjacent formats, and a relevant body makes it a legitimate role-player. In Modern and Legacy, a four-mana 3/3 with no immediate board-altering effect is too slow to matter against the available threats. Pioneer sits in the same camp — deathtouch blockers at this cost don't line up well against the format's speed. Noxious Groodion is a commons-legal card doing commons-legal work, and it does it best in the formats that let it breathe.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.11 bulk tier
At $0.11, Noxious Groodion is deep bulk — you're picking it out of a commons box, not a store page. Bulk rares stabilize; bulk commons like this one don't carry price upside, so grab it for the deck and don't think twice about the cost.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.