Giant

Giant
Creature Type
(Subtype for creature/tribal cards)
Statistics	170 cards 21.8% 3.5% 9.4% 41.8% 11.2% 1.8% 4.7% 0.6% 2.9% 0.6% 1.8%
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type:"Giant"

Giants are massive creatures resembling gigantic humans. Most are known for being dimwitted and violent. Giants are associated with all colors of mana, but are most strongly aligned with red. They are not to be confused with creatures from other races that by magical or artificial circumstances have grown to giant sizes. Cards with the creature type Giant first appeared in Alpha: Hill Giant, Stone Giant and Two-Headed Giant of Foriys .

Storyline

Dominaria

During the Ice Age, some Giants of the Jötun tribe aided the Kjeldorans in the fight against the Order of Stromgald.

Eldraine

On Eldraine, giants usually reside in the wilds and keep their distance from the humans of the Realm. However, some giants choose to align themselves with the court of Garenbrig, and Garenbrig's king, Yorvo, is himself a giant. The giants of Eldraine come in a variety of shapes and sizes. Smaller giants stand around 10 feet tall. These giants often have skin made of bronze and use their immense strength to bully small folk. Larger giants can stand 15 feet tall. These giants have skin of stone, often covered with naturally growing moss. These giants tend to be kinder to small folk, using their strength to help those in need.

Kaladesh

The giants of Kaladesh are nomadic, following the currents of Aether in extensive peregrinations. Twice a year, this brings them close to the city of Ghirapur. The arrival of the giants is celebrated in the migration festival, where teams try to decorate the wandering giants. Giants eat whatever they happen across in the course of their migrations, which includes many other creatures drawn to the aether flow. They are beings of pure aggressive instinct but without a hint of malice. In all likelihood, giants aren’t intelligent enough to wish harm on anyone or anything. Still, the combination of their regular migrations and their sheer destructive power makes these creatures a menace.

Lorwyn-Shadowmoor

Lorwyn

In the plane known as Lorwyn, giants are associated with white and red mana. They are reclusive and lonely, and are known to take long sleep periods after which they arise with a new purpose in life and name. Giants are a race of hermits, arbiters, explorers, and oracles (some are prone to have prophetic visions of the future). Their long life spans give them a particular perception of time, and wisdom that other races respect.

Some Lorwyn giants huddle in mountain caves; you can spot a giant's lair by the enormous, rugged dolmen stones built up around the entrance. Others range over Lorwyn with long, loping steps. You can tell a giant's travel route by the man-sized, earth-compressed footprints and lack of vegetation.

Shadowmoor

In the Shadowmoor aspect of the plane, however, giants are more brutish and associated with red and green mana. During their long sleep periods plants and moss grow over them, and they never bother to remove them.

Giants are viewed by other races as a problem, because they seldom stop in their path, even if a village is on their way.

Mirrodin

The rarely-seen Mirran giants, distinguishable by their dramatic, minotaurlike horns, have a greater lung capacity relative to their weight than all other Mirran humanoids.

Ravnica

The giants of Ravnica are aligned to four guilds. The Golgari are known to reanimate their corpses as servants for their own.

Those giants employed by the Boros legion originate in the Skorskal clan, which has an ancient feud with the Gruul. The Boros mainly use the giants sworn to them for guard duty of their most important strongholds, including Sunhome. They can go for eight hours without blinking.

The giants in service to the Rakdos often act as bouncers and enforces, although some become part of their performances, holding mobile platforms and acting as pillars.

Giants among the Orzhov usually patrol marketplaces, reminding the debtors of the Church to pay their bills in a timely manner.

The giants among the Gruul Clans are known as sunder shamans and channel their rage to enhance their own attacks. Like the rest of the Gruul, they hate the urban development that encroaches on the wilds where they once lived - not least because they have so much difficulty fitting inside the small structures. They delight in destroying such edifices, and in the heat of their rage, they walk through buildings, trample people underfoot, and generally cause as much chaos as possible.

See also: Titans of Ravnica.

Theros

Theran giants come in all five colors of mana. They are emanations of the land itself and rarely concern themselves with the affairs of humans.

Titans

In Theros' ancient past extremely powerful elder giants known as titans ruled the plane. The gods of Theros battled them and sealed them away in the Underworld, where they remained until they broke free.

Zendikar

The giants of Zendikar live seclusive lives away from the other civilized races. They are organized in three great tribes: The Boulderfoot Tribe lives in Akoum, taking barely notice of smaller humanoids. The Shatterskull tribe dwells in the Skyfang mountains of Murasa, exhorting travelers through the mountains by living as brigands. The Turntimber Tribe lives on the continent of Ondu, practicing druidism and hunting baloth and similar large game. Outcasts of the Turntimbers flee to the Makindi Trenches, stalking travelers for food.

On Zendikar, a docile species of Giants called Hurda are used as pack animals. Hurdas walk on their strongly developed forearms, while their tiny, vestigial legs dangle beneath them. Thick tails keep them balanced.

Notable giants

Dominaria

• Axelrod Gunnarson, an anciente giant famous for his long arms.
• Bartel Runeaxe
• Jareth, Leonine Titan, a giant feline and a Pit Fighter.
• The Lady of the Mountain

Echoir

• The Titan Collector

Eldraine

• King Yorvo

Ir

• Ruhan, an independent member of the Fomori giants.

Kylem

• Gorm the Great, battle partner of Virtus the Veiled

Lorwyn

• Brion Stoutarm, an impetuous giant, Kiel's brother.
• Kiel, Brion's brother, with a prophetic talent.
• Rosheen Meanderer, a giant sage and oracle.

Ravnica

• Bilagru, chief enforcer for the Church Militant of the Orzhov Syndicate.

Theros

• Kalemne, an unusual giant who serves the god Iroas.

Unknown

• Oloro

Tribal type

Lorwyn block featured four tribal Giant cards, which could be fetched by Giant Harbinger:

• Crush Underfoot
• Favor of the Mighty
• Feudkiller's Verdict
• Giant's Ire

Tokens

Token Name	Color	Type Line	P/T	Text Box	Source	Printings
Giant	Red	Creature — Giant	4/4		Pact of the Titan
	Green	Creature — Giant	7/7		Giant Opportunity
Giant Warrior	White	Creature — Giant Warrior	5/5		Feudkiller's Verdict
	Red/​Green	Creature — Giant Warrior	4/4	Haste	Giantbaiting
Giant Wizard	Blue	Creature — Giant Wizard	4/4		Giant's Amulet
Giant Bird	Red	Creature — Giant Bird	4/4		Chicken Egg
Zombie Giant	Black	Creature — Zombie Giant	5/5		Quest for the Gravelord
Warchief Giant	Red	Creature — Giant Warrior	5/3		Warchief Giant
Giant Teddy Bear	Pink	Creature — Giant Teddy Bear	5/5		Water Gun Balloon Game

Silver-bordered

Token Name	Color	Type Line	P/T	Text Box	Source	Printings
Giant Teddy Bear	Pink	Creature — Giant Teddy Bear	5/5		Water Gun Balloon Game

Trivia

• In the Grand Creature Type Update the subtype Titan (Mountain Titan) was incorporated into the Giant type.
  • M11 introduced a cycle of Mythic Titans: Each of these mythic rare Giants are 6/6, cost MM, have a color themed ability (Vigilance, firebreathing etc.) and have a powerful ability that is triggered by them entering the battlefield or attacking — Sun Titan, Frost Titan, Grave Titan, Inferno Titan and Primeval Titan.
  • On Theros, the gods once waged war against the titans, their predecessors. Victorious, the gods sealed the titans in the Underworld. If they would ever be freed, they would inflict unspeakable horrors on Theros (The Binding of the Titans). The printed titans have the creature types Elder Giant and the "titan trigger" from M11.
• The subtype Cyclops was obsoleted in Sixth Edition and replaced with Giant. However, this was reversed in the Grand Creature Type Update.
• Sunrise Sovereign is a Giant Lord.
• Giant Creatures which are non-Giant, like Giant Spider, are another staple of the game.
• Size and Strength of Giants are provided by Giant Growth and Giant Strength.
• Opal Titan can become a 4/4 white Giant creature with protection from certain colors.
• Foriysian Totem can become a 4/4 red Giant artifact creature with trample.