First printed in Weatherlight (1997)
Creature — Griffin
Flying
When this creature dies, exile it, then return the top creature card of your graveyard to the battlefield.
2/2
- Illustrated by
- David A. Cherry
Legality
- Legal in
- Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, Penny Dreadful, Premodern, Commander, Duel Commander, Pauper Commander, PreDH, Oathbreaker
- Not legal in
- Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Future Standard, Historic, Timeless, Alchemy, Old School 93/94, Gladiator, Tiny Leaders, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Competitive Brawl
Rulings (7)
- You still put the top creature card from your graveyard onto the battlefield even if this card is not in your graveyard when the triggered ability resolves.
- If you control Mistmoon Griffin when it goes to the graveyard, you exile the Griffin and return the top creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It doesn't matter whose graveyard the Griffin goes to.
- The "top" card of your graveyard is the card that was put there most recently.
- If an effect or rule puts two or more cards into the same graveyard at the same time, the owner of those cards may arrange them in any order.
- Say you're the owner of both a permanent and an Aura that's attached to it. If both the permanent and the Aura are destroyed at the same time (by Akroma's Vengeance, for example), you decide the order they're put into your graveyard. If just the enchanted permanent is destroyed, it's put into your graveyard first. Then, after state-based actions are checked, the Aura (which is no longer attached to anything) is put into your graveyard on top of it.
- Players may not rearrange the cards in their graveyards. This is a little-known rule because new cards that care about graveyard order haven't been printed in years.
- The last thing that happens to a resolving instant or sorcery spell is that it's put into its owner's graveyard. —Example: You cast Wrath of God. All creatures on the battlefield are destroyed. You arrange all the cards put into your graveyard this way in any order you want. The other players in the game do the same to the cards that are put into their graveyards. Then you put Wrath of God into your graveyard, on top of the other cards.
Prices
MTGO price: 0.002 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 30 Oct 2026).
Combos
24 combos, the most popular first:
- Infinite damage, Infinite death triggers…: Goblin Bombardment + Hofri Ghostforge + Mistmoon Griffin
- Infinite colorless mana, Infinite death triggers…: Ashnod's Altar + Hofri Ghostforge + Mistmoon Griffin
- Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB…: Goblin Bombardment + Mistmoon Griffin + Saffi Eriksdotter
- Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB…: Altar of Dementia + Hofri Ghostforge + Mistmoon Griffin
- Infinite colored mana, Infinite death triggers…: Hofri Ghostforge + Mistmoon Griffin + Phyrexian Altar
- Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB…: Mistmoon Griffin + Phyrexian Altar + Saffi Eriksdotter
- Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB…: Ashnod's Altar + Mistmoon Griffin + Saffi Eriksdotter
- Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB…: Blasting Station + Mistmoon Griffin + Saffi Eriksdotter
- Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB…: Altar of Dementia + Mistmoon Griffin + Saffi Eriksdotter
- Infinite charge counters on a permanent, Infinite creature ETB…: Mistmoon Griffin + Saffi Eriksdotter + Spawning Pit