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Howling Giant

Creature — Giant Druid5 generic manaGreen manaGreen mana

Seven mana for a 5/5 with reach and two 2/2 Wolves is nine power spread across three bodies, and that split is the entire design. The value never lives in a single creature you can answer with a single removal spell: kill the Giant on the way down and the Wolves still stick, so the usual counterplay to an expensive fatty (spend a card and net the tempo swing) collapses into a two-for-one that leaves the caster ahead on bodies. Those Wolves are deliberately generic, 2/2s that read as fodder to a sacrifice deck, as pump targets to an anthem plan, and as a head start to anything going wide. Reach is the quiet efficiency: one card patrolling both the ground and the air rather than a second blocker committed to the plan. Nothing here breaks open new territory. It is a legible, fixed-cost curve-topper of the sort green keeps reprinting because the job (turn one big turn into a resilient board) never stops being useful.

Howling Giant (m20)
M20 · #177uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.20
Foil: $0.31
Oracle Text

Rules text

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.) When this creature enters, create two 2/2 green Wolf creature tokens.
Legalities

Format Status

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