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Griffin Protector

Creature — Griffin3 generic manaWhite mana

Built for the go-wide deck, where the bonus rewards flooding the board rather than holding one strong creature back: each new body you commit pumps the flier the same turn, so an aggressive deck dumping its threats quickly can turn a modest evasive body into a meaningful clock for a single decisive swing. The effect is deliberately fleeting (the buff lasts only until end of turn), which keeps it from snowballing and ties its value to tempo rather than permanent accumulation. That timing puts the card in an awkward spot for the strategy it most wants: a token-and-weenie plan that commits everything fast gets one big turn, then the trigger goes quiet once the entry events dry up, leaving a 2/3 flier that still clears the ground stall white aggro tends to bog down in. The evasion is the floor here, not the trigger; even when the pump is doing nothing, the flying keeps the body relevant and pushes damage over a clogged board. As a common-rarity reward for the weenie plan, it sits a tier below the build-arounds that read off permanent counters or persistent anthem effects: this one asks you to time your deployment around a combat step rather than stack value across a long game.

Griffin Protector (dmu)
DMU · #18common
Pricing
Normal: $0.07
Foil: $0.15
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying Whenever another creature you control enters, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
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
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

3 sets
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