Peregrine Griffin
Creature — Griffin
Flying
First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Magic 2012
- Price
- $0.06
- EDHREC rank
- #25882
Peregrine Griffin is a 2/3 flyer with first strike for five mana — a stat line that would have been mediocre a decade ago and is outright unplayable now. Every Constructed and Commander format has cheaper, more impactful creatures doing the same job.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Peregrine Griffin is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legality and playability are different things. In Pauper it faces a common-card pool full of more efficient flyers, and five mana for a 2/3 first striker doesn't clear the bar even there. In Commander, a 99-card format that demands every slot pull meaningful weight, Peregrine Griffin offers nothing that a dozen cheaper options don't do better. Legacy and Vintage don't even enter the conversation.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.06 bulk tier
At $0.06, Peregrine Griffin is deep bulk — the kind of card that ends up in a trade binder because no one needs it. That price won't move; there's no demand driver that would push a vanilla-adjacent five-drop Griffin toward relevance.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.