Giant Strength
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +2/+2.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Tempest
- Price
- $0.14
- EDHREC rank
- #23877
Giant Strength staples +2/+2 and trample onto a creature for two mana — a fine rate on paper, but it's an aura, which means you're trading a card for an enchantment that dies the moment your creature does. In Commander especially, two-for-ones against you are the rule, not the exception, and Giant Strength doesn't do enough to justify the risk.
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 |
Giant Strength is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker. Pauper is its most credible home, where aggressive red strategies sometimes want cheap pump that sticks, and the commons card pool keeps the competition modest. In Legacy and Vintage, the bar for a two-mana aura is simply too high — those formats have better things to do on turn two. In Commander, Giant Strength is a near-automatic cut: the format's multiplayer threat density means your buffed creature will be answered before it recoupes the investment, and there's no shortage of permanents that provide similar stats without the aura liability.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.14 bulk tier
At $0.14, Giant Strength is deep bulk — you'll find copies in any common box or throw-in trade. That price is stable because demand is functionally zero in competitive formats and minimal everywhere else.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.