This card needs more respect. A 3/2 flying first strike kills a very large percentage of the set. And at common, too.
Posted By:
ZEvilMustache
(1/29/2012 6:51:43 AM)
An old Assault Griffin now with first strike. Good for common, but there are more playable cards for 5 mana.
Posted By:
Jesterz666
(1/27/2012 6:43:47 AM)
One day, Wizards will print an amazing Griffin... maybe... some day...
Posted By:
ichorNet777
(1/26/2012 10:14:12 PM)
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 madnessā¼
Posted By:
PlanesMoyza
(1/28/2012 5:24:05 AM)
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.
Posted By:
yesnomu
(2/6/2012 8:14:51 AM)
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.
Posted By:
sarroth
(2/29/2012 9:24:26 PM)
Beats Thragtusk 5/5 :P
Posted By:
brenden66
(11/11/2012 12:54:45 AM)
Hooray, the tradition of lackluster griffins lives on!
Posted By:
Totema
(1/27/2012 12:27:01 AM)
This card is horrid. Voiceless Spirit costs 2 less and gets the job done in limited much more efficiently.
Posted By:
joeah100
(3/18/2012 11:59:51 PM)
one thing's for sure: i'd rather have this standard-legal before another coughM11 5CMCflyingfirststrikercough
Posted By:
dontmess17
(2/22/2012 10:59:06 PM)