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Not really a perfect Giant Growth replacement.

so. double the cost for an additional 1/3 effect. yea ill pass, could have been great if it gave hexproof. would have been much like vines of vastwood, which i like.

Well, Monstrous Growth always did need to be an instant to be anything like useful.

Wizards obviously wanted the hate to rain down on fast green infect.

So lame.

Awwwwww, itsa puppy!

I would rather have Giant Growth, personally, but in a Lightning Bolt free set, this is a fair sub.

Okay, I totally get Shock and Cancel. You want to have the basic effect but it turns out your ideal casting cost for "Counter target spell" is 1/2{U}{U} and your damage for zapping things is like 2.5. But this isn't unglued, so you suck it up and go with the slightly underpowered spell because you want the effect and it really isn't a terrible card. Aaron pretty much said as much in his random card comment on one of the Cancel printings.

But this... you didn't remove Giant Growth because it was overpowered, you removed it just to mix things up. Which I'd usually be okay with, although I'm somewhat disappointed that it was just to have a core set survivor winner. (Totally agree on picking Giant Spider with the Arachnus dude around, though.) But you don't need to make a weak version of Giant Growth. You didn't even keep it at one mana, so there's no reason you couldn't have gone with something like Might of Oaks. You just made an unapologetically *** card.

A worse giant growth... T_T
1/5

If they wanted a green combat trick in green for 2 mana, they should have added aggressive urge. At least that gives trample and is a cantrip. Far superior to this crap.

While I agree completely that Giant Growth's replacement is crap, and that they probably didn't even need to get rid of it,
I remember an articale saying there's a good reason it is out of the core set because of Innistrad.
So, I'm just crossing my fingers till then.

Is it just me or does it look like a giant head on a stick?

One benefit of this over giant growth is that 2 of these can kill a man (infect. And spanning over 2 turns)
This is one less card than if u would use giant growths.
I still say giant growth is the better card but this is passable.
3/5

Giant Growth will be missed. This card is like a distant cousin that, while has it's uses, can never replace the original. 3.5/5

Wizards obviously wanted the hate to rain down on fast green infect.

Yes. They hated fast green infect so much that they made it possible to kill your opponent on Turn 2 with a Glistener Elf, two Mutagenic Growths and an Assault Strobe. With one to spare.

If that's an archetype that Wizards hates, I would hate to see one they like.

This isn't worse than Giant Growth. In many ways it is better. Suddenly you are trading a Runeclaw bear for a Titan in limited, where one mana isn't going to matter as much.
But I'll never forgive it for breaking Giant Growth's tenure. Even with its epic art and flavor combo.

Love the flavor text... But not much else... 2.5/5

There's a reason for it, guys. Wizards specifically said that there was a reason for this, and we won't know until Innistrad is spoiled. Imagine a blue enchantment that countered all enemy 1CMC spells. Not unthinkable. I'm sure there's a reason for this, we just have to be patient and have faith in WotC.

Good-bye groundswell, vines of vastwood, primal bellow and giant growth. Hello...castrated green? This would have been a fair replacement for the other pump cards, but for giant growth as well? Unbelieveable!

Not only did they take away Lightning Bolt, but Giant Growth is soon to be gone as well.

As for hating on green, at least green got Dungrove Elder, which last I checked, is a pretty decent card.

I shall miss the art from Giant Growth the most. Goodbye Mega-Smokey. It is the time of Giganti-Cat now.

The reason why this replaces Giant Growth are the Titans (see Sun Titan). All of them have P/T 6/6 and this means that even with a Giant Growth, you need a creature with power 3 to do a 2 for 1.

There are 44 creatures with power 2 in M12, but only 13 with power 3!!!

So this card is manly for limited tournaments and R&D did well with the replacement.

4.5/5 (-0.5 for the art)

it's called titanic growth because it turns a 2/2 wolf into a titan...for a turn

It's not awful, but I think Predator's Strike would have been a better replacement for Giant Growth. Trample is usually a lot more useful than an extra +1/+1.

I'm sad to see this break Giant Growth's Core Set run, as the little green I do play, I always run four Growths. I believe I heard somewhere there was a very good reason for kicking out Giant Growth, but who knows?

Upon thinking about it, there maybe some creature in Innistrad that gives your Instants and Sorceries Flashback equal to their mana cost. Imagine for +6/+6?

Does not die to Mental Misstep, like Giant Growth would. There's that.

2/5 for not being Giant Growth.

The reason is because of how powerful the Titans and Infect are.

In the kind of deck to play this card, +1/+1 is not as big a deal as 1 extra mana. This makes some decks weaker while being being an even better card than giant growth for the decks that Wizards is ok with giving Giant Growth to. (Elves and Green Creature Dorks in general, which don't have mana problems.)

The only unfortunate thing is that Primeval Titan perfectly overlaps most of the Archetypal Green ways to play (get mana, make big creatures, attack), but is also one of the OverPowered Titans that they wanted to slow down Giant Growth for so it would not be too hard to kill them....

Actually- I wonder if Wizards will consider breaking up the Sun Titan Cycle? Remember how we thought M12 was going to break up the Lorwyn 5 but still use some of them? Not all Cycles HAVE to stay together, and the Titans might be fine to reprint without Primeval and Sun....maybe?

(Wizards needs to STOP making Basilisk Collars and Vault of the Archangels if it wants to reprint Inferno Titans, but otherwise he might be fine)

Could so easily have been +5/+5. I wonder why it wasn't.