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Balshan Griffin

Multiverse ID: 29820

Balshan Griffin

Comments (11)

DaaNz
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.8/5.0) (5 votes)
this doesn't look like it's from balsha
Mudbutt_on
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (5 votes)
Paying for it's casting cost is already horrible, why pay another 1U and discard a card to pay the casting cost AGAIN?
A3Kitsune
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (1 vote)
This is the only non-white Griffin in Magic. There are two Gold Griffins. Griffins are an almost exclusively white creature type.
Baconradar
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0) (4 votes)
Off colour flavour, low power level, lame flavour text and art by Wayne England, master of drawing the exact same monster on every card.

Blech.
Fanaticmogg
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0) (2 votes)
Five-mana 3-power fliers are already great in limited, and this one saves itself from removal. Granted, it's not great for constructed, but this is one seriously underrated card.
okaaaaay
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Pretty Good
thorjy
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (2 votes)
Man, fcuk this artist. Most of his art really does look the same. Baconradar wasn't kidding. They are all pictures of some freakey beast with its tongue sticking out, looking to the left side of the frame.
pumaman83
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (2 votes)
@thorjy You are looking at it all wrong, maybe he is the art department go-to guy when they want a creature sticking its tongue out to the left.

Creative Dept: "We need a picture of a creature sticking its tongue out and looking to the left."

Art Dept: "We need Wayne England, only he can do this task for us properly."
nope.avi
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (2 votes)
just when you thought you got this piece of shit out of your hand your opponent mindslavers you and makes you take it back
the horrors of mindslaver
Lord_Ascapelion
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I think a lot of you guys are forgetting about limited. Yeah, this guy sucks for constructed and/or casual, but he would have been a decent pick in draft or sealed- allowed you to save himself and get threshold easier.
niallcmurray86
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Not a very good card, I could see how it might have been ok in an Odyssey draft. But as for the Wayne England jokes; sure his tongued out creature style is there, but hey it looks pretty cool! And besides, how many of us can draw,paint,etc anywhere near that well?