Giant Dustwasp
Creature — Insect
Flying
Suspend 4—
(Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay and exile it with four time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost. It has haste.)
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Time Spiral Remastered
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #25849
Giant Dustwasp is a 3/3 flyer with suspend 4 for two mana — reasonable stats stapled to a mechanic that means you're waiting four turns to get it. Outside of decks that specifically want suspend triggers or free-cast interactions, it's outclassed by nearly every green flying threat at this mana cost.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Giant Dustwasp is a pauper-legal card, and that's the format where it's most plausibly relevant — suspend synergies and common-card restrictions make a 3/3 flyer for two a more competitive proposition. In Commander, it competes against a deep pool of green creatures that either cost less, hit harder, or do something beyond occupying air space, and Giant Dustwasp does nothing when it finally lands except be a 3/3. Legacy and Vintage are non-starters; the card has no business in powered environments. If suspend as a theme is the point — commanders like Jhoira of the Ghitu — it at least fits the slot, but it's never the payoff you're building toward.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Giant Dustwasp is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard and ink, not gameplay. That price reflects the card's power level accurately and isn't going anywhere.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.