Flowstone Giant
Creature — Giant
: This creature gets +2/-2 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Tempest
- Price
- $0.17
- EDHREC rank
- #30737
Flowstone Giant offers a repeatable pump ability that can push through damage or trade up in combat, but paying two mana per activation on a four-mana 3/3 base body is a poor rate in nearly every context. It's a bulk rare for a reason — the ceiling is too low to justify the slot.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Flowstone Giant is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but it sees essentially no play in any of them. In Commander, a 4-mana creature that needs repeated mana investment just to become a temporary threat competes against creatures that win games outright at that cost. Pauper is the most plausible home, where the card pool is constrained, but even there aggressive red decks have cleaner options at this slot. Legacy and Vintage have no interest in it whatsoever.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.17 bulk tier
At $0.17, Flowstone Giant sits firmly in bulk territory and will stay there — demand is too low to move the needle. Pick it up if a specific budget build calls for it, but don't expect the price to mean anything either direction.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.