Desolation Giant
Creature — Giant
Kicker (You may pay an additional
as you cast this spell.)
When this creature enters, destroy all other creatures you control. If it was kicked, destroy all other creatures instead.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- RW
- Rarity
- special
- Set
- Time Spiral Timeshifted
- Price
- $0.31
- EDHREC rank
- #21405
Desolation Giant enters and wipes every creature your opponents control — then, if you kick it, wipes your own side too, clearing the entire board for five mana. The kicker clause is a feature in sacrifice and reanimator shells, not a drawback, but in any other context it's a vanilla 3/3 board wipe that doesn't touch your opponents' generals.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Desolation Giant earns a slot specifically in reanimator and blink shells that want to fire the trigger repeatedly without ever paying kicker — free recurrence makes it one-sided every time. Outside those shells, it's a five-mana sorcery-speed wipe that leaves commanders alive and asks you to sacrifice nothing, which is underpowered relative to Blasphemous Act or Hour of Devastation. In Legacy and Vintage it has never found a home; the rate is too slow and the effect too conditional for those formats. Modern is technically legal but functionally irrelevant — creature-based strategies there fold to sweepers that cost less and don't require a build-around to avoid self-destruction.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.31 bulk tier
At $0.31, Desolation Giant is deep bulk — the price reflects narrow demand rather than low power in the right shell. It's unlikely to move unless a high-profile reanimator list puts it on camera, so there's no urgency either way.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.