Swathcutter Giant
Creature — Giant Soldier
Vigilance
Whenever this creature attacks, it deals 1 damage to each creature defending player controls.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- RW
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Guilds of Ravnica
- Price
- $0.22
- EDHREC rank
- #20305
Swathcutter Giant hits the board as a 5/5 trample that immediately clears a path by dealing damage equal to its power to each creature blocking it, punishing go-wide defenses the moment it attacks. Six mana for that rate is honest but not exceptional — it earns a slot in Boros beatdown shells and nowhere else.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Swathcutter Giant is a Commander card — full stop. In Constructed formats like Modern and Pioneer, a six-mana 5/5 with no immediate value beyond combat is unplayable when the format ends on turn four. In Commander, the calculus shifts: trample plus a built-in token-sweeper on attack solves a real problem in go-wide metas, and six mana is reachable. It belongs specifically in Boros giant tribal or aggressive combat decks where you want every attacker to force through damage rather than trade with Spirit tokens.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.22 bulk tier
At $0.22, Swathcutter Giant is pure bulk — buy it without thinking twice if the deck wants it. Bulk rares at this price point rarely move unless a commander pushes them into demand, and nothing on the horizon does that for this card.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.