Giantbaiting
Sorcery
Create a 4/4 red and green Giant Warrior creature token with haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.
Conspire (As you cast this spell, you may tap two untapped creatures you control that share a color with it. When you do, copy it.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GR
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Shadowmoor
- Price
- $0.04
- EDHREC rank
- #27340
Giantbaiting puts a 4/4 trample token into play the turn you cast it, then another on your next upkeep — six power with trample across two bodies for three mana with convoke available to reduce that further. It's a tempo-positive combat trick that scales better than it looks, but it tops out in token-focused Commander builds and has no competitive ceiling anywhere else.
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 |
Giantbaiting is a bulk common in every format that can run it, and that ceiling is basically Commander. In Pauper it's theoretically castable but too slow and narrow against the format's efficient threats and removal. Legacy and Vintage have zero interest in a sorcery that makes tokens at this rate. Commander is where Giantbaiting finds its only real audience: token strategies that want redundant, low-cost token generation can use the convoke discount to deploy it cheaply off creature-heavy boards, and the delayed second body gives it marginal resilience against sweepers. Even there, it competes with a long list of more powerful options.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.04 bulk tier
At $0.04, Giantbaiting is deep bulk — you're paying for the cardboard, not the effect. There's no meaningful demand to push the price up, and that's unlikely to change.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.