Razor Hippogriff
Creature — Hippogriff
Flying
When this creature enters, return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand. You gain life equal to that card's mana value.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Scars of Mirrodin
- Price
- $0.14
- EDHREC rank
- #26301
Razor Hippogriff returns an artifact from your graveyard to hand and gains you life equal to its mana value — on a 3/3 flying body for five mana. That's three effects stapled together, and in artifact-heavy Commander decks it pulls genuine weight.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Razor Hippogriff is a Commander card through and through — five mana is too slow for Legacy or Vintage, where artifact recursion comes cheaper and faster, and it sees no meaningful play in those formats. In Commander, artifact decks value the recursion and the life gain together, especially in longer games where trading a mid-sized threat back into your hand while padding your life total matters. Oathbreaker is theoretically legal but the 60-card singleton format's faster pace makes Razor Hippogriff a fringe pick there as well.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.14 bulk tier
At $0.14, Razor Hippogriff is deep bulk — easy to pick up from any common box or bulk bin. The price reflects its narrow home rather than its power level inside that home; it won't appreciate, but it doesn't need to.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.