Tithebearer Giant
Creature — Giant Warrior
When this creature enters, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Jumpstart
- Price
- $0.07
- EDHREC rank
- #28177
Tithebearer Giant enters the battlefield and replaces itself with a card, stapling a Divination-lite onto a 3/5 body for seven mana. That's a steep price for a 101st-card slot, and it rarely makes the cut outside dedicated Giant or reanimator shells where the body has additional payoff.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Tithebearer Giant is a casual Commander card — full stop. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern, Pioneer, or Legacy, a seven-mana 3/5 that draws one card is nowhere near playable, and Pauper has far better common card draw at every mana slot. In Commander, Tithebearer Giant earns its slot only in Giants-matter decks where Aegar, the Freezing Flame or a similar payoff multiplies its value, or in reanimator shells where the enter-the-battlefield draw trigger fires for free off a Kaalia of the Vast attack.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.07 bulk tier
At $0.07, Tithebearer Giant is pure bulk — pick it up for free out of a common box. Price stability is a non-issue; there's no realistic reprint or demand spike that moves a card at this tier.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.