Giant Tortoise
Creature — Turtle
This creature gets +0/+3 as long as it's untapped.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border
- Price
- $0.44
- EDHREC rank
- #22598
Giant Tortoise is a 1/4 for two mana — a wall in creature clothing that blocks early aggression and survives most burn. Outside of dedicated turtle-tribal or toughness-matters shells, it does nothing on offense and offers no text beyond its stats.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Archelos, Lagoon Mystic
Archelos, Lagoon Mystic cares about having a tapped permanent to lock opponents' permanents into entering tapped, and Giant Tortoise is a cheap, durable body that fits the creature type and survives long enough to keep that engine running.
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 |
In Commander, Giant Tortoise is a fringe inclusion — it shows up almost exclusively under Archelos, Lagoon Mystic as a tribal piece, and even there it competes with turtles that bring more text. Pauper is the format where a 1/4 for two actually means something: Giant Tortoise can hold the ground against aggressive one- and two-drops where toughness-to-cost ratio is a real metric. Legacy and Vintage are legal but irrelevant — nothing in those formats asks for a vanilla 1/4.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.44 bulk tier
At $0.44, Giant Tortoise is bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not power. Demand is narrow enough that this price is a ceiling, not a floor.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.