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Tectonic Giant

Creature — Elemental Giant MV 4

Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.

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What it doesRulingsIn the 99Every version

What it does

Whenever this creature attacks or becomes the target of a spell an opponent controls, choose one —

• This creature deals 3 damage to each opponent.

• Exile the top two cards of your library. Choose one of them. Until the end of your next turn, you may play that card.

Rulings

7 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2020-01-24

    Tectonic Giant doesn't change when you can play the exiled card. For example, if you exile a sorcery card, you can cast it only during your main phase when the stack is empty. If you exile a land card, you can play it only during your main phase and only if you have an available land play remaining.

  • 2020-01-24

    Playing an exiled card causes it to leave exile. You can't play it multiple times.

  • 2020-01-24

    An ability that triggers when a creature becomes the target of a spell resolves before the spell that caused it to trigger. It resolves even if that spell is countered.

  • 2020-01-24

    If you don't play the exiled card that you chose, it remains in exile with the card you didn't choose.

  • 2020-01-24

    Players can cast spells and activate abilities after the triggered ability resolves but before the spell that caused it to trigger does.

  • 2020-01-24

    If a spell targets Tectonic Giant more than once, its ability triggers only once.

  • 2020-01-24

    You choose which of the exiled cards you'll be able to play while the ability is resolving. You can't wait to pick one later. The other card remains in exile.

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Tectonic Giant, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 3
Games played 0
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games, which is not enough to publish a rate yet.
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Horde of Notions 1 0 —
Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Rakdos 1 deck
  • Five-Color 1 deck

Every version of Tectonic Giant

8 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly. A printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall publishes none for some of them.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Tectonic Giant. It runs a name search across every version, which covers the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.

Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only. No individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.