Organ Grinder
Creature — Zombie
, Exile three cards from your graveyard: Target player loses 3 life.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Torment
- Price
- $0.09
- EDHREC rank
- #29164
Organ Grinder trades exiling cards from your graveyard for direct life drain — a narrow, low-ceiling effect that asks too much setup for too little payoff. It's a bulk card for a reason, and outside dedicated graveyard-exile synergy builds, it doesn't make the cut.
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, Organ Grinder is a fringe inclusion in graveyard-matters decks that specifically care about exiling their own cards — a small subset already crowded with better payoffs. Legacy and Vintage have access to it but would never run it; the effect is too slow and too small for those formats' power levels. Pauper is the one format where Organ Grinder could theoretically carve a niche, since the common card pool limits competition, but even there the life drain rate makes it a long shot for any serious list.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.09 bulk tier
At $0.09, Organ Grinder is deep bulk — a price that accurately reflects its limited competitive demand. Don't expect movement; this is a card that sits in bulk boxes and doesn't climb.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.