Retaliator Griffin
Alara Reborn 123 • rare
- Set
- Alara Reborn
- Collector number
- 123
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana cost
- 1 generic mana red mana green mana white mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Green · Red · White
- Artist
- Jesper Ejsing
- Market price
- $0.38
What it does
Flying
Whenever a source an opponent controls deals damage to you, you may put that many +1/+1 counters on this creature.
For every eye, an eye. For every tooth, a tooth. Griffins are nothing if not fair.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Retaliator Griffin was released in 2009 as part of the Alara Reborn expansion for Magic: The Gathering. As the final set in the Shards of Alara block, Alara Reborn was unique in that every single card featured multiple colors, reflecting the narrative event where the five disparate shards of the plane of Alara were reunited into one world.
The card was illustrated by Dave Kendall, who utilized a dramatic, sweeping composition to emphasize the creature's predatory nature and defensive role. Within the game's mechanics, the card was designed to reward players for being attacked, a theme that resonated with the set's broader focus on reactive combat strategies. It has since become a modest piece of mid-tier history for collectors of white-aligned avian creatures from that specific era of the game.
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