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Callous Giant

Creature — Giant4 generic manaRed manaRed mana

Damage prevention usually lives on white cards or burns out as a one-shot protective spell; bolting it onto a red Giant's body as a permanent, passive shield is the unusual move. The effect rewrites how every small attacker and burn spell reads against it: a Shock, an Incinerate, a 2/2's swing, all of it bounces off, and only damage of four or more leaves a mark. That makes a vanilla-sized 4/4 into a body that demands real investment to kill, the kind of attrition tax red rarely gets to levy from the front. The prevention is a flat threshold rather than a scaling one, which gives the design its clean shape: it grows more relevant the smaller the threats around it and evaporates entirely against the big swings, so the creature dominates skirmishes without becoming unkillable. This is a Giant built to grind out the ground war against a swarm of nuisances rather than to trade blows with another fattie, and that narrow but real durability is what marks it out among the pile of six-mana 4/4s that read identically on the type line.

Callous Giant (inv)
INV · #139rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.25
Foil: $2.98
Oracle Text

Rules text

If a source would deal 3 or less damage to this creature, prevent that damage.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
Legal
PreDH
Legal
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
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