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Wayward Giant

Creature — Giant4 generic manaRed mana

A 4/5 for five mana with menace is set-filler in its purest form: a common beater whose toughness-heavy frame points it at the defensive side of a curve while the keyword nudges it back toward offense. There is no engine here, no synergy hook, no graveyard or counter interaction; menace is the only thing distinguishing it from a vanilla body, and it is doing precisely what menace was built to do, which is buy an unremarkable midsize creature a slightly better attack step against boards that have gone wide. The 5 toughness lets it sit in front of small creatures and shrug off most direct burn at the low end; the keyword means it cannot be chump-blocked by a single body, so it trades up in combat a little more often than the rate suggests. That is the whole of the design: a stat line tuned to block, a keyword tuned to attack, and nothing else asking to be built around. Cards like this exist to give a color a reliable common-rarity creature near the top of its curve, and Wayward Giant fills that role without pretending to do more.

Wayward Giant (kld)
KLD · #139common
Pricing
Normal: $0.03
Foil: $0.07
Oracle Text

Rules text

Menace
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
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
N/A
Pauper Commander
Legal
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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