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Goldmane Griffin

Creature — Griffin3 generic manaWhite manaWhite mana

The whole reason this Griffin exists is the search clause on its enters trigger, which reaches into both library and graveyard to fetch one specific card: Ajani, Inspiring Leader, a planeswalker built to buff exactly the sort of evasive white creature that just went hunting for him. The pairing is the design intent, deliberately keyed to a single named card rather than a category so the tutor only pays off in a deck already committed to running that one walker. On its own, a 3/2 with flying and vigilance for five mana is unremarkable; the trigger elevates it into a setup piece, a body that lands and immediately puts the marquee planeswalker it was designed to enable in your hand. The graveyard clause is the quiet upside, letting a discarded or milled Ajani come back without a shuffle, so the plan stays live even after the walker has been cast and killed once. This is linear, single-minded design: a body that offers a deck nothing unless it has bought into the specific package, and a great deal to one that has. It is built to sell a mono-white flyers plan organized around one flagship walker rather than to earn its slot on raw stats.

Goldmane Griffin (m20)
M20 · #283rare
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Normal: $0.18
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying, vigilance When this creature enters, you may search your library and/or graveyard for a card named Ajani, Inspiring Leader, reveal it, and put it into your hand. If you search your library this way, shuffle.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
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