Zeriam, Golden Wind
Legendary Creature — Griffin
Flying
Whenever a Griffin you control deals combat damage to a player, create a 2/2 white Griffin creature token with flying.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Dominaria United Commander
- Price
- $0.34
- EDHREC rank
- #13529
Zeriam, Golden Wind generates a 1/1 Griffin token with flying every time it attacks, snowballing a board of evasive bodies while threatening to outpace opponents who can't block in the air. The cost is a five-mana 3/3 that does nothing until combat — slow enough that removal ruins your tempo entirely.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Zeriam, Golden Wind is a Commander card through and through — the token generation payoff compounds over multiple turns in a multiplayer game, and griffin or bird tribal shells give it a home alongside lords and anthem effects. In Legacy and Vintage it's strictly unplayable; those formats have no patience for a five-mana do-nothing-now creature, and the token output doesn't approach competitive relevance. Oathbreaker is the one other format where it fits, specifically as a signature spell target in a go-wide flying strategy, though it's far more likely to appear in the 99 than in the command zone.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.34 bulk tier
At $0.34, Zeriam, Golden Wind is bulk — easy to pick up as a casual inclusion without any meaningful financial commitment. Bulk tribal creatures rarely appreciate unless a pushed synergy card elevates the whole tribe, so treat this as a spend-and-forget addition rather than a hold.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.