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Towering Titan

Creature — Giant

This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is the total toughness of other creatures you control.
Sacrifice a creature with defender: All creatures gain trample until end of turn.

CMC
6
Mana cost
{4}{G}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
mythic
Set
Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander
Price
$0.32
EDHREC rank
#4888
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Towering Titan card art
Towering Titan enters with toughness equal to the number of Walls you control — in the right deck, that's a 10/10 or better on curve for five mana. Felothar the Steadfast and Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn // Isilu, Carrier of Twilight both generate enough Wall tokens to make Towering Titan an immediate game-warping threat, and the built-in vigilance means it attacks without dropping your defense.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Felothar the Steadfast

Felothar the Steadfast

66.0% of decks · synergy 0.58

Felothar the Steadfast runs Towering Titan as a payoff finisher — Felothar's token generation fills the board with Walls, and Towering Titan converts that board presence directly into a massive toughness-scaling beater that closes games.

02
The Pride of Hull Clade

The Pride of Hull Clade

51.5% of decks · synergy 0.51

The Pride of Hull Clade cares about high-toughness creatures, so Towering Titan arrives pre-sized as one of the biggest bodies on the table and immediately triggers whatever payoffs Hull Clade has assembled.

03
Betor, Kin to All

Betor, Kin to All

46.7% of decks · synergy 0.39

Betor, Kin to All leans on creature type synergies, and Towering Titan's Wall subtype slots cleanly into the archetype's web of payoffs while providing a late-game body that scales with the number of Walls already in play.

04
Arcades, the Strategist

Arcades, the Strategist

34.3% of decks · synergy 0.32

Arcades, the Strategist turns toughness into power, and Towering Titan's toughness can reach double digits in a Wall-dense list — under Arcades, the Strategist that translates directly into a one-shot threat swinging for lethal.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Towering Titan is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but Commander is the only format where it's doing real work. In Legacy and Vintage, five mana for a conditional creature is too slow against the threats those formats deploy on turns one and two. Commander is the natural home: the Wall archetype has enough redundancy to consistently make Towering Titan enormous, and a single-copy singleton environment means you don't need it to be generically powerful — you just need it to be backbreaking in context, which it is.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

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Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn // Isilu, Carrier of TwilightViscera SeerTowering Titan

Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn // Isilu, Carrier of TwilightViscera SeerTowering Titan

Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite death triggers; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite scry 1

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Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn // Isilu, Carrier of TwilightWoe StriderTowering Titan

Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn // Isilu, Carrier of TwilightWoe StriderTowering Titan

Infinite death triggers; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite scry 1; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB

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Price Context

Current price

$0.32 bulk tier

At $0.32, Towering Titan is deep bulk — any Wall player should pick up a copy without thinking twice. Bulk rares that fill a specific archetype role rarely spike hard, but this one sees 66% inclusion in Felothar the Steadfast decks, so demand is real and the floor is unlikely to drop further.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.