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Pygmy Giant

Multiverse ID: 74333

Pygmy Giant

Comments (30)

inmypants22
★☆☆☆☆ (1.6/5.0) (6 votes)
first and teh best cartd ever
Dante80
★★☆☆☆ (2.3/5.0) (3 votes)
Damn, I'd love to see the opponents' expression when you dish out a second one in the battlefield...XD
Alpha-Black
★★★☆☆ (3.6/5.0) (7 votes)
Use with Yellow Scarves Troops for 500,000 damage. Fun.
mikato1
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0) (1 vote)
wouldn't a pygmy giant be normal size? or at least just noun-adjective disagreement?
Tiggurix
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (5 votes)
This + Crookshanks Kobold. Your choice between either 22 million or 24 million damage.
HairlessThoctar
★☆☆☆☆ (1.0/5.0) (1 vote)
I'm not sure Krookshanks Kobold would work; the card doesn't specify whether or not the number can be written out all the way.
Kirbster
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (8 votes)
It's Unhinged, people. We're not here to split hairs about what counts as a "number" in the rules.
Kryptnyt
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (4 votes)
It can sac itself for 487, thats usually enough to kill anyone given you are playing ragged veins or stuffy doll.
TheHGW
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (4 votes)
Sadly, it has to be a creature or else Borrowing 100,000 arrows would be a great idea.
-Ominous-
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (6 votes)
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You can change its flavor text. 'Nuff said.
Hoonster
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (11 votes)
Sacrifice Wu Elite Cavalry = 400,000 DAMAGE?
4/5
divine_exodus
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (3 votes)
So he's normal sized? A pygmy giant would be a small giant therefore the average size of a human.
Try4se
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0) (2 votes)
Why is this card rated so high? It's not even legal to play.
aznxknightz
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (2 votes)
This + Spitemare = GG. Atleast they are in the same color.
Axelle
★★☆☆☆ (2.2/5.0) (3 votes)
Sacrifice Yellow Scarves Troops = 500000 DAMAGE!

IT'S OVER 9000!!1
Tanaka348
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (1 vote)
@Salient: Man, I'm going to applaud you for going all regex on this shit. But another comment elsewhere showed me that Crookshank Kobolds beats even that at TWENTY FOUR MILLION. And hey, if you need to tone it down a notch, the same card also has 22,000,000 on it!

And it turns out it's also mentioned here on the second page.
Jannissary
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
If you can find a way to redirect the damage to a player, you can win the game the turn he activates that ability.

Failing that, you could always nuke an Eldrazi or Titan or something when you really need to.
SentientAndGodlike
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I love how Unhinged has some Seriously obvious combos, like this and _____, as was mentioned before, as well as some others a I can't recall now.
SuicidalTendancies
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
187 would have been a way cooler number that would still kill anything
Morgaledh
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (1 vote)
@Try4se: Because it's an awesome card? Who cares about legality? By far, most of the people who play this game will never, ever see a tournament and play on their kitchen tables with friends. Legal? Banned? If I can bring it to the table, I can play it! Lighten up.
SnackyNorph
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (1 vote)
BEST. COMBO. EVER.
Crookshank Kobolds, this, target a Stuffy Doll. 24 million direct damage for {R}!
EyeballFrog
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
T3 This
T4 Boros Reckoner, activate the giant.

What a beautiful curve. A bit intensive on the red, though.
Salient
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (2 votes)
The greatest amount of damage you can do with this card is 1,000,000 if you're going by printed numbers only (edited to address the "24 million" Kobold). This gives the seventh edition Llanowar Elves a reason to exist, and lets you kill a 1000000/1000000 creature with Dracula, literally quoting from Bram Stoker. How cool is that?

If Pygmy Giant flung noncreature cards instead of creature cards, you'd top out at 700,000 with Relentless Assault.

The next time you think to yourself "I must be the geekiest person alive," remember that someone sat down, wrote an algorithm to automatically search the Gatherer database using regular expressions to find instances of numbers, and organized the results by magnitude -- just to leave a silly comment on an Unhinged card in Gatherer...

Edit: ....but I forgot to search for number words like "million" :(
EvilDarkVoid
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I actually hate the flavor text because it almost completely invalidates any reason to actually combo this with a card that has a high number, seeing as how 487 is almost always higher than you need to be (unless you need to be infinite, in which case this won't help).
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☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
BEST FLAVOR TEXT OF ALL TIME. If you missed it, go back and read the card again.
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☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
If the number is written out, does it still count? I would like to use this with Hundred-Handed One if that's the case.