Giant
A classic species that are native to many planes, Giants tend to be associated with red and often fall in the mid range or above when it comes to card costs. Most Giants are large brutish humanoids ranging in size from that of a house or barn to a large mountain. They are often shown as being stupid and randomly destructive, however not all are depicted exactly this way. (Loafing Giant, Hill Giant, Bloodfire Colossus)
The Giants on the plane of Lorwyn are particularly prevalent, and are associated with the color white as well as red. Giants in Lorwyn are said to do everything “big.” This can mean a hungry giant eating an entire field or a thoughtful giant sitting and thinking for 10 or 20 years. This results in “white” giants tending to be shown as intelligent and benevolent hermits, being the judges and adjudacator for the smaller denizen's conflicts, while “red” giants tend towards destruction, whether it be accidental or intentional. (Wandering Graybeard, Boldwyr Heavyweights)
Read more about this topic: List Of Species In Magic: The Gathering
Famous quotes containing the word giant:
“In frames as large as rooms that face all ways
And block the ends of streets with giant loaves,
Screen graves with custard, cover slums with praise
Of motor-oil and cuts of salmon, shine
Perpetually these sharply-pictured groves
Of how life should be.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“The giant was hairy, the giant was horrid,
He had one eye in the middle of his forehead.”
—Ogden Nash (1902–1971)
“The point of the dragonfly’s terrible lip, the giant water bug, birdsong, or the beautiful dazzle and flash of sunlighted minnows, is not that it all fits together like clockwork--for it doesn’t ... but that it all flows so freely wild, like the creek, that it all surges in such a free, finged tangle. Freedom is the world’s water and weather, the world’s nourishment freely given, its soil and sap: and the creator loves pizzazz.”
—Annie Dillard (b. 1945)