One day, Wizards will print an amazing Griffin... maybe... some day...
Totema
★★★☆☆ (3.2/5.0)(2 votes)
Hooray, the tradition of lackluster griffins lives on!
Jesterz666
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
An old Assault Griffin now with first strike. Good for common, but there are more playable cards for 5 mana.
RAV0004
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Wizards never did it's griffin artists any justice, and they likely never will.
PlanesMoyza
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Why they don't let me have a white Phantom Monster? Am I a bad person or what? Or why didn't they reprinted the Shepherd Of The Lost as a griffin? People must know what WotC is doing to the griffins! Stop the madness‼
pedrodyl
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
So in every set since m12 there has been an overcosted griffin and a limited bomb mythic rare dragon that is useless in constructed. interesting.
ZEvilMustache
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(5 votes)
This card needs more respect. A 3/2 flying first strike kills a very large percentage of the set. And at common, too.
CastleOrange
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This guy gets defused by so much in limited.
yesnomu
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
You laugh--"Worse than Plover Knights! And Shepherd of the Lost!" It's all about the Limited environment, and in a set without much first strike or removal and plenty of tiny fliers, this guy is a sweet bomb that can hold off armies. My opponent had him and Thalia out--how do I get through five power of first strike? It took turns and turns until I drew an out.
One of DKA's best white commons, no joke. Griffin be hungry.
Radagast
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I've won games in Limited thanks to its size and first strike, but it is still awful. Plover Knights is flat out superior with 1 more toughness and a creature type that was more meaingful at the time. Depressing example of power decline post-Mirrodin.
Minus_Prime
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Strictly worse than so many things, yet I can't stop trying to put it somewhere...
dontmess17
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
one thing's for sure: i'd rather have this standard-legal before another coughM11 5CMCflyingfirststrikercough
sarroth
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Actually, there are good griffins. This guy is not one of them outside of limited, but they do exist:
Diving Griffin is good and a great target for equipment or enchantments, and Fledgling Griffin might not actually have flying all the time but he's a great 2-drop for creatures that are normally 4 CMC and higher. And then there's Griffin Sentinel, and of course the non-griffin Griffin Rider. Maybe that's not a whole lot of options, but it's enough for a deck. I made a griffin deck and I can tell you, it was really fun and had an average goldfish win on turn 7, which isn't that bad.
IUHoosier
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I feel like this was a really good opportunity to finally make a good or interesting griffin. The fact that Wizards missed that opportunity makes this griffin even more disappointing than most others.
joeah100
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
This card is horrid. Voiceless Spirit costs 2 less and gets the job done in limited much more efficiently.
kyothine
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Aw, at the mana cost of a Serra Angel, they should have at least given it vigilance or some relevant ETB effect.
I think I'd rather see something like a Miss Demeanor. (maybe a less silly drawback)
raptorman333
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
It's a good card left in the shadows of banslayer angel looks like trash. back in the day, this probably would've been a rare. e.g. Angel of Retribution ... Then again, maybe not. At least it still has potential in pauper, maybe.
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One of DKA's best white commons, no joke. Griffin be hungry.
Diving Griffin is good and a great target for equipment or enchantments, and Fledgling Griffin might not actually have flying all the time but he's a great 2-drop for creatures that are normally 4 CMC and higher. And then there's Griffin Sentinel, and of course the non-griffin Griffin Rider. Maybe that's not a whole lot of options, but it's enough for a deck. I made a griffin deck and I can tell you, it was really fun and had an average goldfish win on turn 7, which isn't that bad.