Ondu Giant
Creature — Giant Druid
When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Duel Decks: Zendikar vs. Eldrazi
- Price
- $0.10
- EDHREC rank
- #17256
Ondu Giant puts a basic land directly onto the battlefield when it enters — ramp and a 2/4 body in one four-mana package. It's outclassed by cheaper options in most decks, but if you need redundancy in creature-based ramp packages, it gets the job done.
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 |
In Commander, Ondu Giant competes in a crowded bracket of creature-ramp bodies alongside Solemn Simulacrum and Wood Elves, and four mana for a 2/4 that fetches one basic is rarely the best rate available. Pauper is where Ondu Giant sees its most legitimate play — the format's restricted card pool makes the combination of a blocker and land tutoring genuinely useful in green midrange shells. In Legacy, Modern, and Vintage, it's too slow and too small to matter; those formats don't want four mana spent on a creature that only finds a basic.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.10 bulk tier
At $0.10, Ondu Giant is deep bulk — you're not buying this for value, you're buying it because the effect is good enough and nothing cheaper does the same thing on a creature. It will hold at bulk indefinitely; there's no scarcity driving it anywhere.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.