Doomwake Giant
Enchantment Creature — Giant
Constellation — Whenever this creature or another enchantment you control enters, creatures your opponents control get -1/-1 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Commander 2015
- Price
- $0.48
- EDHREC rank
- #1761
Doomwake Giant puts a -1/-1 counter on every creature your opponents control each time an enchantment enters the battlefield under your control — stack enough enchantments and it clears the board without ever attacking. The five-mana body is the tax; pair it with Living Plane or an Anikthea, Hand of Erebos engine and the board-wipe trigger fires repeatedly on the same turn.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Anikthea, Hand of Erebos
Anikthea, Hand of Erebos reanimates enchantments as token copies turn after turn, and every one of those triggers feeds Doomwake Giant — it's an automatic include at 80% of Anikthea lists for exactly that reason.
Daxos the Returned
Daxos the Returned generates experience counters and spawns enchantment creature tokens whenever you cast enchantments, giving Doomwake Giant a near-constant stream of triggers as the token army grows.
Aminatou, Veil Piercer
Aminatou, Veil Piercer's constellation-heavy build naturally floods the board with enchantments, and Doomwake Giant converts that flood into a sustained -1/-1 pressure engine that Aminatou's blink effects can re-trigger on entry.
Victor, Valgavoth's Seneschal
Victor, Valgavoth's Seneschal generates Cursed Role tokens and other enchantment auras at pace, and Doomwake Giant punishes opponents for each one — stacking roles on multiple creatures cascades the debuff across the whole board.
Lynde, Cheerful Tormentor
Lynde, Cheerful Tormentor moves curses around the table rapidly, and each curse entering play under your control re-fires Doomwake Giant's trigger, making the Giant a passive attrition machine in a deck already designed to annoy.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Doomwake Giant does its real work — enchantment-heavy builds like Anikthea and Daxos chain triggers off a single turn's worth of enchantment plays, and the five-mana cost is acceptable when the payoff is stacking -1/-1 counters across three opponents' boards simultaneously. In Legacy and Vintage, the enchantment density required to make Doomwake Giant live up to its mana cost simply doesn't exist in competitive shells, and five mana for a conditional effect that needs support is a non-starter. Modern and Pioneer offer enchantment synergy decks, but the five-mana slot in those formats demands immediate, unconditional impact — Doomwake Giant asks too much of the surrounding pieces to compete there.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Living PlaneDoomwake Giant
Destroy all lands opponents control; Mass Land Denial
View on Commander Spellbook ↗Price Context
Current price
$0.48 bulk tier
At $0.48, Doomwake Giant is firmly bulk, which makes it one of the easiest includes to justify in any enchantment Commander build. The price is stable — it sees enough concentrated Commander demand to stay in print circulation without ever spiking.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.