Hill Giant
Creature — Giant
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- 30th Anniversary Edition
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #28231
Hill Giant is a 3/3 for four mana with no abilities — a statline that was unexciting twenty years ago and is outclassed by nearly every comparable creature in the game today. Run it only if you're building a nostalgia or intentionally underpowered deck; in any competitive context, better options exist at every point on the curve.
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 |
Hill Giant is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legality and playability are different things. In Commander, a 3/3 vanilla for four does nothing — the format demands creatures that generate value, threaten combos, or protect a game plan, and Hill Giant does none of that. Pauper is the only format where a baseline 3/3 body has ever seen marginal discussion, but even there the common card pool has long since moved past it. Across every format it's legal in, Hill Giant is a historical curiosity rather than a card you register.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data isn't available for Hill Giant at this time, but as a reprinted vanilla creature with no competitive application, copies are typically available for bulk rates — pennies in most cases. It's not worth picking up for gameplay purposes, though older printings carry modest collector interest.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.