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Tithebearer Giant

Creature — Giant Warrior5 generic manaBlack mana

Six mana for a 4/5 that draws a card is a rate no serious deck plays for its own sake, so the front-loaded numbers miss what the creature is actually built for. Its home is any deck that treats the body as fuel: a graveyard engine, a reanimation shell, a sacrifice deck that wants something it can throw away without losing tempo. In those shells the enter trigger reads as a rebate rather than a bonus, because you were going to spend the creature on something anyway and the cantrip smooths the draw on the way there. The 1 life is a token cost that keeps the effect from being outright free; at this mana value a single point stopped mattering to your own hand long ago. Where lighter black cantrip-bodies fold to the first burn spell, the 5 toughness earns its keep: it blocks a wide swath of aggressive creatures and survives most one-shot removal that trades cleanly with smaller frames, so it holds the ground while it replaces itself. Honest about being a role-player, it does one useful thing entering the battlefield and one useful thing in the red zone, and it is priced for a deck that wants both from the same slot.

Tithebearer Giant (clu)
CLU · #124common
Pricing
Normal: $0.06
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Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature enters, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
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
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

2 sets
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