Karplusan Giant
Creature — Giant
Tap an untapped snow land you control: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 7
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Ice Age
- Price
- $0.17
- EDHREC rank
- #30400
Karplusan Giant puts a 4/4 trampler into play for five mana — passable stats, but the mandatory sacrifice of a land at the beginning of each upkeep means it shrinks your mana base every turn it survives. The cost is too steep for anything except dedicated land-recursion shells where that downside actively feeds your gameplan.
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 |
Karplusan Giant is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but sees meaningful play in essentially none of them. In Commander, five mana for a vanilla-adjacent creature that destroys your own lands is a hard sell in a format full of Craterhoof Behemoth and Avenger of Zendikar at similar price points. Legacy and Vintage have zero interest — the power floor is simply too high. Oathbreaker is the one fringe case where a dedicated landfall or self-mill commander could weaponize the upkeep cost, but even there better enablers exist.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.17 bulk tier
At $0.17, Karplusan Giant is deep bulk — the kind of card that moves in bulk lots, not singles orders. That price reflects real demand, which is to say almost none, and there's no pressure moving it upward.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.