Rotting Giant

Rotting Giant

Creature — Zombie Giant

Mana cost: {1}{B}

How we read this card

Whenever this creature attacks or blocks, sacrifice it unless you exile a card from your graveyard.

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Causes: sacrifice a creature, a creature dies, exile a card, anything leaves a graveyard.

Cares about: nothing.

Works well with

a Zombie creature in a graveyard — 21 cards in the game can cause this (Rotting Giant is one).

When Rotting Giant is in the graveyard:

  1. Tomb Tyrant — can bring it back
  2. Deadly Plot — can bring it back
  3. Gisa and Geralf — can bring it back
  4. Zombie Apocalypse — can bring it back
  5. Zul Ashur, Lich Lord — can bring it back
  6. Relentless Dead — can bring it back

a Zombie in a graveyard — 29 cards in the game can cause this (Rotting Giant is one).

When Rotting Giant is in the graveyard:

  1. Ghoulcaller's Chant — can bring it back
  2. Cruel Revival — can bring it back
  3. Diregraf Colossus — gets bigger
  4. Infernal Caretaker — can bring it back
  5. Aphetto Vulture — can bring it back
  6. Rot Hulk — can bring it back
  7. Lord of the Undead — can bring it back
  8. Ghoulraiser — can bring it back
  9. Unholy Grotto — can bring it back

a nontoken Zombie is put into a graveyard from the battlefield — 29 cards in the game can cause this (Rotting Giant is one).

When Rotting Giant is put into a graveyard from the battlefield:

  1. Headless Rider — makes a token
  2. The Ghoul, Gunslinger — puts 2 counters on a permanent

a Zombie is put into a graveyard from the battlefield — 44 cards in the game can cause this (Rotting Giant is one).

When Rotting Giant is put into a graveyard from the battlefield:

  1. Archghoul of Thraben — searches a library
  2. Undead Augur — draws you 1 card
  3. Plague Belcher — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  4. Diregraf Captain — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  5. Vengeful Dead — makes each opponent lose 1 life

1 other card cares about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a Zombie deals combat damage — 657 cards in the game can cause this (Rotting Giant is one).

  1. Undead Alchemist — When Rotting Giant deals combat damage, Undead Alchemist mills a card

a Zombie attacks — 657 cards in the game can cause this (Rotting Giant is one).

  1. Varina, Lich Queen — When Rotting Giant attacks, Varina, Lich Queen draws you that many cards

a nontoken Zombie enters the battlefield — 661 cards in the game can cause this (Rotting Giant is one).

  1. Necroduality — When Rotting Giant enters, Necroduality makes a token

a Zombie it boosts — 669 cards in the game can cause this.

  1. Cursecloth Wrappings — Cursecloth Wrappings gives Rotting Giant bigger stats

668 other cards cause it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a Zombie enters the battlefield — 795 cards in the game can cause this (Rotting Giant is one).

When Rotting Giant enters:

  1. Noxious Ghoul — shrinks a creature by -1/-1
  2. Geralf, the Fleshwright — puts counters on a permanent
  3. Wayward Servant — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  4. Champion of the Perished — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  5. Mummy Paramount — gets +1/+1
  6. Unconventional Tactics — returns itself from the graveyard
  7. Binding Mummy — taps a creature or artifact

a Zombie creature it grants abilities to — 797 cards in the game can cause this.

  1. Ghoulflesh — Ghoulflesh gives Rotting Giant an extra ability

796 other cards cause it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a nontoken creature is sacrificed — 1,714 cards in the game can cause this (Rotting Giant is one).

When you sacrifice Rotting Giant:

  1. Fumulus, the Infestation — makes a token
  2. Bag of Devouring — exiles it

a creature is sacrificed — 1,741 cards in the game can cause this (Rotting Giant is one).

When you sacrifice Rotting Giant:

  1. Ziatora, the Incinerator — deals that creature's power damage
  2. Dina, Essence Brewer — draws you 1 card
  3. Fleshtaker — gains you 1 life
  4. Body Dropper — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  5. Smothering Abomination — draws you 1 card
  6. Kels, Fight Fixer — draws you 1 card
  7. Caesar, Legion's Emperor — triggers
  8. Grist, the Hunger Tide — kills a creature or planeswalker an opponent controls
  9. Cabal Therapist — triggers
  10. Rakdos, the Muscle — exiles a card from an opponent's library

19 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

anything is exiled — 2,497 cards in the game can cause this (Rotting Giant is one).

  1. The War Doctor — When Rotting Giant is exiled, The War Doctor puts a time counter on itself
  2. God-Eternal Oketra — When God-Eternal Oketra is exiled thanks to Rotting Giant, it triggers

anything leaves a graveyard — 2,503 cards in the game can cause this (Rotting Giant is one).

When Rotting Giant leaves a graveyard:

  1. Blastoneuron — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  2. Defiled Crypt // Cadaver Lab — makes a token
  3. Teval, the Balanced Scale — makes a token
  4. Hologram Stalker — makes a token
  5. Tormod, the Desecrator — makes a token
  6. Quintorius, Field Historian — makes a token
  7. Garrison Excavator — makes a token
  8. Amzu, Swarm's Hunger — makes a token
  9. Kirol, History Buff // Pack a Punch — becomes prepared
  10. Teval's Judgment — triggers

13 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a creature in a graveyard — 2,769 cards in the game can cause this (Rotting Giant is one).

When Rotting Giant is in the graveyard:

  1. Chainer, Dementia Master — can bring it back
  2. Havengul Lich — can bring it back
  3. Liliana the Repentant — can bring it back

806 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

anything attacks — 17,934 cards in the game can cause this (Rotting Giant is one).

  1. Shaun, Father of Synths — When Rotting Giant attacks, Shaun, Father of Synths makes a token

150 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.