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Skyraker Giant

Creature — Giant2 generic manaRed manaRed mana

Reach on a red creature is the design wrinkle worth pausing on: it is white and green's keyword, the anti-flier tax those colors pay so red does not have to. Red gets evasion-blocking the cheap way, through direct damage to the flier itself, so a red body that reaches up and grabs a dragon out of the air is a small color-pie loan rather than a native trait. The justification here is flavor: Giants are tall, and a creature whose whole identity is height earns the keyword on theme rather than on color. The frame wants to attack and trade up, a four-power body at this cost pushing damage on offense, with reach giving it something useful to do on the turns it cannot. That is the quiet utility of the design. A common red four-drop that beats down and shoots down a flier covers two roles a curve-filler usually has to pick between, the role-compression a common-rarity aggro creature exists to provide.

Skyraker Giant (fdn)
FDN · #547common
Pricing
Normal: $0.11
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)
Legalities

Format Status

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

Other printings

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