Bayou Groff

Creature — Plant Dog

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature or pay {3}.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Alchemy	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pauper	Legal
Pauper Duel Commander	Legal
Pauper EDH	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (11)

Nicklaffy2302 on Raze, Rebuild, Reclaim

5 months ago

leovolt884_ I'm little embarrassed to admit I missed the Swamp part in Snuff Out, I appreciate you pointing it out! I enjoy your suggestions of Bayou Groff in place of Werebear, Utopia Sprawl, and Skyshroud Ranger. I've never been good at land base building / having an appropriate ratio, so I'm hesitant to include a third land colour.

I also have mixed feelings about Rubblebelt Maverick, but I think I want to see how he does first before replacing him.

Thank you very much for your thoughts, and I look forward to seeing your version if you do build one! :)

leovolt884_ on Raze, Rebuild, Reclaim

5 months ago

I may be stupid, but how are you casting snuff out?

In terms of suggestions you could probably go 20 or 21 lands in a deck where lands matter so much. I don't think Rubblebelt Maverick is actually helping that much to run 4 of it. I think what would be funnier is jam 4 Raze and run 2 or 3 Skyshroud Ranger or something of the same effect. Maybe make a small engine with Groundskeeper to return lands and then put them directly into play from your hand.

Another direction you can take it is just have one REALLY GOOD land and sacrifice the rest. Enchant a land with Wild Growth and Utopia Sprawl and just focus on keeping one or two enchanted lands around and keeping your opponent down to one or two mana while you have 3, 4, or even 5. Stone Rain is also an iconic card. This deck seems to really want to play black. Bone Shards can help you bin an early land to play a turn 2 wurm. Village Rites is excellent card draw and can keep your hand full of lands for afforementioned Skyshroud Ranger type effects. Black loves to sacrifice for cheap and while Improvised Club is a great use for Akki Blizzard-Herder more sacrifice outlets would be more consistent.

I don't really like Werebear in this deck because I think it will just take too long for it to become a 4/4 and it isn't an effective beater if you have to end up using it for mana to cast anything. Maybe consider Bayou Groff or Burning-Tree Emissary. This deck looks kinda funny and it makes me want to make my own version

Bookrook on Rhox & The Hound

6 months ago

Why is Bayou Groff in here?

PauperPundit on WG - Pauper - Selesnya Counterstrike

1 year ago

Bayou Groff is a potential fun addition, especially since it can be brought back by Tethmos High Priest!

Looking for inspiration to build a deck like this one, so thanks for the help!

lkus1 on Black Green Pauper Sacrifice

3 years ago

Hi I have also been brewing green black sac and have found success with Village Rites as a way to refuel and Bayou Groff as a big beater for the early game.

Balaam__ on The Projects: Budget Urban Development

3 years ago

Thanks michaelqdoherty this one came together really well. I think Bayou Groff is worth considering; when I built this I threw in Siege Wurm as a placeholder beater and kinda forgot about him.

michaelqdoherty on The Projects: Budget Urban Development

3 years ago

I was originally toying with this type of deck but in red and using Gorilla Shaman and Goblin Tinkerer and Roiling Terrain. This is a cool take on it. Bayou Groff might be a good replacement for the Siege Wurm it'll come out before your landshaper and draw fire.

BruhYouFarted on Almost Broke The Format, Until …

4 years ago

I have been silently in the Pauper community for a while now. I like building decks around unique cards that not many people talk about. Ive made decks (on Goldfish) centered around Mortis Dogs , Nested Shambler , Bayou Groff , Morselhoarder + Power of Fire + Sinking Feeling , and Ghostly Possession + Palace Guard . Most decks go nowhere, from a lack of flashiness to a lack of supporting cards. I decided to peek inside the MTGO exclusives, the Master's Editions, since those sets could dictate Pauper legality. When I peeked around with Master's Edition 4, I saw a pretty interesting card, Library of Leng . I thought of useful synergies for it regarding its "If an effect causes you to discard a card, discard it, but you may put it on top of your library instead of into your graveyard" effect, and found Drannith Stinger and Drannith Healer . My thought process was that using these cards, i could cycle a 1-mana cycler, (ex: Frostveil Ambush ) and recur it using the libraries affect; creating a ping machine. I than remembered that Street Wraith was a thing, and my mind was blown. You see, you could turn-1 Library of Leng , turn 2 a Drannith Stinger or a Drannith Healer , and than turn 3 either a Drannith Stinger (or a Drannith Healer if you didnt have one) and swing. OP at 18, You at 20, and 2 2/2 Citizens of Drannith on the board (Again, the only combo of the 2 creatures that wouldn't work would be 2 of the Drannith Healer s), and a Street Wraith in hand. Than, cycle Street Wraith over and over. you have either created a machine that domes each player for 1, or a machine that does it for 2. Either way, as long as you had a life advantage, you could win on the spot. Just to make sure that this worked, I went to the rulings on The Gatherer. My heart was broken. On October 4th, 2004, this was alarmed: "You can’t use the Library of Leng ability to place a discarded card on top of your library when you discard a card as a cost, because costs aren’t effects." I was in disbelief. I thought I had broken Pauper, or at least invented a new deck, but no. Soooo, back to the drawing board. The Library still seems like a great card, but I need enough good synergies to make a full list. Any synergies or recommendations would be welcome. Faithless Looting or Merfolk Looter , Anyone?