Heartwood Giant
Creature — Giant
, Sacrifice a Forest: This creature deals 2 damage to target player or planeswalker.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Tempest Remastered
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #30507
Heartwood Giant puts a repeatable land-to-damage engine on the board — tap it, sacrifice a Forest, deal 2 to any target — at the cost of six mana for a 5/5 that telegraphs its own fuel source. It's a niche role-player, not a generalist, and earns its slot only in decks that generate Forests faster than they spend them.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Heartwood Giant is a Commander card through and through — the format's longer games and land-focused archetypes are the only context where a six-mana 5/5 with a sacrifice-a-Forest ability justifies a slot. In Legacy and Vintage, where it's technically legal, it's far too slow and too narrow to compete. Commander is where Forests-matter and landfall shells can actually use it, though even there it sits at the back of the line behind more efficient threats.
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Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data for Heartwood Giant isn't currently available, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for a live number. Given its narrow application and low demand, it almost certainly falls in bulk-rare territory — pick it up cheaply if the deck calls for it, but don't expect the price to move.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.