Stone Giant
Creature — Giant
: Target creature you control with toughness less than this creature's power gains flying until end of turn. Destroy that creature at the beginning of the next end step.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Collectors' Edition
- Price
- $2.09
- EDHREC rank
- #28740
Stone Giant taps to throw a creature with power less than its own toughness at a target creature — a removal spell stapled to a 3/4 body. Four mana for a conditional, sorcery-speed effect that requires board setup is too clunky for most competitive tables.
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 |
Stone Giant is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but sees essentially zero competitive play in any of them. In Commander, the effect is real — forced attacks can redirect damage or set up blocks that kill threats — but the ceiling is low when removal and interaction are plentiful and your opponents have more than one creature worth worrying about. Legacy, Modern, and Vintage all have far more efficient ways to remove creatures or generate four-mana value, so Stone Giant doesn't register there either. It's a casual Commander card, full stop.
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Price Context
Current price
$2.09 cheap tier
At $2.09, Stone Giant sits in the cheap tier entirely on collector nostalgia rather than play demand. Don't expect that price to reflect competitive utility — it doesn't.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.