Hearthcage Giant
Creature — Giant Warrior
When this creature enters, create two 3/1 red Elemental Shaman creature tokens.
Sacrifice an Elemental: Target Giant creature gets +3/+1 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 8
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Lorwyn
- Price
- $0.16
- EDHREC rank
- #26148
Hearthcage Giant enters with two 3/1 Elemental tokens and pumps each of them +3/+3 for as long as it's in play — that's six power across three bodies for eight mana, none of which survives the Giant leaving the battlefield. The cost is too high and the payoff too fragile for any format where eight-mana sorcery-speed plays get punished.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Hearthcage Giant is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but seeing play in essentially none of them. In Commander, eight mana buys you board-defining threats that don't evaporate when removed — Hearthcage Giant's tokens lose their pump the moment the Giant dies, so a single removal spell collapses the whole investment. Legacy and Vintage have zero interest in an eight-mana creature that doesn't win on the spot. Modern has long since moved past this kind of inefficiency. Oathbreaker follows the same logic as Commander: the format's lower starting life total and faster pace make a fragile eight-drop a liability.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.16 bulk tier
At $0.16, Hearthcage Giant is deep bulk — the price reflects exactly what the market thinks of it. Don't expect that floor to move; casual Giant tribal is the only home that might want this, and even there cheaper options exist.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.