Grim Flayer

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Grim Flayer: Creature - Human Warrior, Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.

Mana cost
{B}{G}
Mana value
2
Type
Creature - Human Warrior
Colour identity
Black and green (BG)
Power / toughness
2/2
Rarity
Mythic
Set
Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander (DSC)
Released
2024-09-27
Collector number
218
Artist
Mathias Kollros
Commander rank
10,872 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
Keywords
Delirium, Surveil, Trample

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About Grim Flayer

Grim Flayer is a Magic: The Gathering card, a mythic rare black and green creature from Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander (DSC), a Commander product released in September 2024. It is collector number 218 in that set, with art by Mathias Kollros. It costs {B}{G} (one black and one green mana) to cast, for a mana value of 2. It is a 2/2 creature. Its colour identity is black and green. It is legal in Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Historic, Timeless, Gladiator and Penny Dreadful. It has been printed in 6 sets, from Eldritch Moon (2016) to Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander (2024). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.42 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-11).

Card text

Trample

Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, surveil 3. (Look at the top three cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)

Delirium - This creature gets +2/+2 as long as there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard.

Market price

Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.42 (as of 2026-11-11).

The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.

Format legality

Legality of Grim Flayer by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.

PioneerLegal
ModernLegal
LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
CommanderLegal
Duel CommanderLegal
OathbreakerLegal
BrawlLegal
HistoricLegal
TimelessLegal
GladiatorLegal
Penny DreadfulLegal

Other printings of Grim Flayer

Grim Flayer has been printed in 6 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.

PrintingRarityYear
Shadows over Innistrad Remastered (SIR) #234Rare2023
Magic Online Promos (PRM) #102305Rare2022
Double Masters 2022 (2X2) #222Rare2022
Double Masters 2022 (2X2) #380Rare2022
Double Masters 2022 (2X2) #502Rare2022
Eldritch Moon (EMN) #184Mythic2016
Eldritch Moon Promos (PEMN) #184sMythic2016

Official rulings

One official ruling applies to Grim Flayer.

  • When you surveil, you may put all the cards you look at back on top of your library, you may put all of those cards into your graveyard, or you may put some of those cards on top and the rest of them into your graveyard.

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