First printed in Tempest (1997)

All 8 prints

Breaking News (OTP) #62, 2024
Breaking News (OTP) #79, 2024
Judge Gift Cards 2023 (P23) #2, 2023
Magic Online Promos (PRM) #62423, 2016 (digital)
Kaladesh Inventions (MPS) #39, 2016
Tempest Remastered (TPR) #223, 2015 (digital)
World Championship Decks 1998 (WC98) #rb290sb, 1998
Tempest (TMP) #290, 1997

Grindstone

Artifact

3 generic , tap : Target player mills two cards. If two cards that share a color were milled this way, repeat this process.

In the last 30 days 0.8% of Legacy decks played it (9 of 1071). Most played in Welder Combo. In the last 30 days 0.2% of Vintage decks played it (1 of 438). Most played in Tinker Vault.

In Limited on MTG Arena

Win rates in Arena drafts and sealed, retrieved from 17Lands (CC BY 4.0).

Win rates of Grindstone in Limited
Set	GIH WR	vs set	IWD	Games
Outlaws of Thunder Junction (OTJ), Premier Draft	42.6%	-11.5	-5.2	1014

GIH WR: win rate of the games in which the card was in the opening hand or drawn
vs set: points above or below the average win rate of all decks in the set
IWD: improvement when drawn: GIH WR minus the win rate when the card stayed in the library
Games: games in which the card was seen

Combos

1 combo from Commander Spellbook.

Infinite self-mill, Infinite mill for target opponent: Grindstone + Painter's Servant

Legality

Constructed

Standard Not legal
Pioneer Not legal
Modern Not legal
Legacy Legal
Vintage Legal
Pauper Not legal
Future Standard Not legal
Historic Legal
Timeless Legal
Alchemy Not legal
Penny Dreadful Not legal
Premodern Legal
Old School 93/94 Not legal

Singleton

Gladiator Legal

Commander formats

Commander Legal
Duel Commander Legal
Pauper Commander Not legal
PreDH Legal
Tiny Leaders Banned
Oathbreaker Legal
Brawl Legal
Standard Brawl Not legal
Competitive Brawl Legal

In tournament decks of the last 30 days

Meta: share of the archetype in the format
Play it: decks of the archetype that play this card
Together: decks with this card that also play the other one (main deck)
Lift: how much more often than chance: 1 = unrelated, above 1 = played together on purpose

Legacy Other periods →

In 9 of 1071 decks (0.8%).

Share of decks

0.8%

▼ 0.5 vs previous 30 days

Weekly, last 90 days

Decks

9 main, 2 sideboard

Avg. copies

2.3

in the main deck

Win rate

50%

1 top 8 (challenges only)

Archetypes by metagame share

Archetype	Meta	Play it
Welder Combo	2.4%	8%
Affinity	1.4%	7%
Painter	0.6%	100%

Played together with

Card	Together	Lift
Painter's Servant	100%	119.0
Mox Opal	100%	8.5
Urza's Saga	100%	5.5
Ancient Tomb	100%	3.6
Lotus Petal	100%	2.7
Pyroblast	89%	119.0
Goblin Engineer	89%	34.0
Goblin Welder	89%	24.4
Lightning Bolt	89%	12.1
City of Traitors	89%	5.5

Best win rate

Deck	Record
Painter Lane Amiridis in From The Vault: Legacy 36 $1K	3-2 60%
Affinity Razdan08 in Legacy Challenge 16	3-3 50%
Painter MikeEgan in Legacy Challenge 16	2-3 40%

Challenges only: MTGO publishes only the 5-0 league decks.

Latest decks

Deck	Copies	Finish
Welder Combo uburdub, 18 Oct	2 main	#25 0-2
Welder Combo ingroguham, 17 Oct	2 main	5-0
Affinity Razdan08, 11 Oct	3 main	#8 3-3
Painter retiman, 7 Oct	2 main	5-0
Painter ianw11, 4 Oct	2 main
Painter Ale Mosteiro, 4 Oct	2 main	#22 1-3
Painter MikeEgan, 4 Oct	3 main 1 side	#20 2-3
Painter Lane Amiridis, 3 Oct	2 main	#15 3-2

Vintage Other periods →

In 1 of 438 decks (0.2%).

Share of decks

0.2%

▲ 0.2 vs previous 30 days

Weekly, last 90 days

Decks

1 main, 0 sideboard

Avg. copies

4.0

in the main deck

Win rate

0 top 8 (challenges only)