Loafing Giant
Creature — Giant
Whenever this creature attacks or blocks, mill a card. If a land card was milled this way, prevent all combat damage this creature would deal this turn.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Invasion
- Price
- $0.28
- EDHREC rank
- #30885
Loafing Giant drops a 4/4 body that neuters its own combat damage — whenever it attacks, the defending player mills the top three cards of your library, replacing what would have been a meaningful hit with a self-mill trigger. It's a deliberate downside creature, and you run it only in decks that treat milling your own library as an upside.
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 |
Loafing Giant is a Commander card through and through — self-mill payoffs, graveyard recursion engines, and Dredge-adjacent strategies give the downside real utility in a 100-card singleton format where filling your graveyard is often the point. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but competes with efficient threats that don't come pre-nerfed, so it sees no meaningful play there. Outside those formats, Loafing Giant is simply not legal.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.28 bulk tier
At $0.28, Loafing Giant is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not demand. It's a stable bulk rare with no competitive crossover, so the price floor is essentially already the price.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.