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Loafing Giant

Creature — Giant4 generic manaRed mana

The 4/6 body wants to do exactly what its statline suggests: stand in combat all day, trade up, brawl with anything five mana or smaller and live. The drawback is what makes the name a joke at the card's expense. Every time it swings or blocks, it mills, and the moment a land hits the graveyard it goes limp, dealing no combat damage for the turn. A 4/6 is a body built around its toughness, but the toughness is the half that does nothing here: it survives the fight without contributing to it, the giant that shows up, flexes, and then declines to throw the punch. The probability is the whole tension. With roughly a third to two-fifths of a deck being lands, this is a coin-flip every combat, and the flip resolves only after blocks, so you commit the giant before you know whether it will actually connect. As a piece of red common-creature design, it's the era's habit of selling an overstatted body and charging for it with a self-defeating clause, the same impulse that produced creatures that hurt their controller or refused to attack. The mill is incidental flavor (it's not stocking a graveyard you want), pure variance dressed up as a drawback. A wall that occasionally remembers it can fight.

Loafing Giant (inv)
INV · #153rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.27
Foil: $2.29
Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever this creature attacks or blocks, mill a card. If a land card was milled this way, prevent all combat damage this creature would deal this turn.
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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