Giant Shark
- Mana cost
- {5}{U}
- Type
- Creature — Shark
- Power / toughness
- 4 / 4
- Set
- The Dark #29 (common)
- Price
- $0.31 USD
This creature can't attack unless defending player controls an Island.
Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked by a creature that has been dealt damage this turn, this creature gets +2/+0 and gains trample until end of turn.
When you control no Islands, sacrifice this creature.
Giant Shark has 1 printing, first in The Dark (1994). EDHREC ranks it #26,146 among Commander cards. It appears most in Tiger Shark, Abyssal Hunter decks (7 on EDHREC). It has 4 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: legal
- modern: not legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Commanders that run Giant Shark most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Tiger Shark, Abyssal Hunter: 7 decks
- Zhou Yu, Chief Commander: 4 decks
- Stockman, Mad Fly-entist: 1 decks
Often played with Giant Shark
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : The bonus happens when a previously damaged creature becomes a blocker and the bonus is not removed if that creature is removed from the blocking situation by any means.
- : Giant Shark only gains its bonus if the blocking creature was damaged before blocking was declared. Damaging the creature later will not give the Shark the bonus.
- : Giant Shark gets the bonus once for each creature it blocks or is blocked by that meets the criteria.
- : If a creature enters a blocking situation with the Giant Shark due to being part of a banded group of attackers, the Shark will get the bonus if that creature is damaged at that time.