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Giantbaiting

Sorcery2 generic manaRed or Green mana

Eight power of hasty Giant for a single sorcery is the headline, but the way you pay for the second half is what defines the card. Conspire lets the spell copy itself by tapping two creatures sharing red or green with it, no extra mana required, so a developed board converts width into a second token rather than a second card. The friction is real and deliberate: the creatures financing the copy are tapped out of the attack, so amplifying the spell costs you bodies that could have swung alongside the Giants. That turns the cast into a genuine allocation puzzle about how much of the board to commit to the spell versus to combat. The tokens are pure tempo and nothing more: simple 4/4 bodies with haste, no evasion to speak of, so a single chump blocker eats one and the self-exile clause closes the window before the body can develop into anything lasting. The whole play is pinned to one alpha strike. As a demonstration of conspire's central thesis, this one is hard to beat: the mechanic rewards a board that has already gone wide, letting it overload a modest spell into a haymaker by spending creatures it controls rather than mana it had to draw into. Few cards built around the keyword make that trade as legible.

Giantbaiting (plst)
PLST · #MM3-208common
Pricing
Normal: $0.03
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Create a 4/4 red and green Giant Warrior creature token with haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step. Conspire (As you cast this spell, you may tap two untapped creatures you control that share a color with it. When you do, copy it.)
Legalities

Format Status

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