Jötun Grunt
Creature — Giant Soldier
Cumulative upkeep—Put two cards from a single graveyard on the bottom of their owner's library. (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Magic Online Theme Decks
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #24124
Jötun Grunt is a 4/4 for two mana — an absurd rate — but it demands you put four cards from graveyards back into libraries on your upkeep or sacrifice it. In any deck that actively wants graveyards empty or can weaponize the upkeep trigger, that cost becomes an asset rather than a liability.
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 |
In Legacy, Jötun Grunt earns real consideration in white aggressive shells that already run Leyline of the Void effects or don't care about opponent graveyards refilling — a 4/4 for WW simply attacks for lethal faster than the drawback matters. Modern is less hospitable; the format's speed has increased and the upkeep cost is harder to sustain without dedicated graveyard hate synergies. In Commander, Jötun Grunt is a niche include — the four-card upkeep cost is trivially satisfied in pods running Reanimate strategies, and it pulls double duty as a hate piece and a beater, but 99-card singleton dilutes its reliability enough that most white decks prefer unconditional two-drops.
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Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data isn't available for Jötun Grunt at the moment, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for a current figure. Given its narrow competitive appeal and limited reprint history, copies tend to sit in the budget-to-mid range — worth picking up if you have a specific shell in mind, not as a spec.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.