Impelled Giant is one of those cards players keep asking about. Here is, in plain words, what its official text says, the rulings published by Wizards of the Coast, and the combos players actually run.
Official card text
Trample Tap an untapped red creature you control other than this creature: This creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the power of the creature tapped this way.
Complete guide
Impelled Giant is a formidable Giant Warrior that transforms your other red creatures into raw power. By tapping your allies, this creature can reach massive power levels to crush opponents with its natural trample ability.
Tapping for Power
The core mechanic of Impelled Giant is an activated ability that costs nothing but tapping another untapped red creature you control. Because the cost uses the word 'tap' rather than the tap symbol, you can use this ability even if the other creature is affected by summoning sickness. Every time you activate this, the Giant gains a power boost equal to the tapped creature's power until the end of the turn.
Calculating the Bonus
The ability checks the power of the creature you tapped at a specific moment: when the ability resolves. If your opponent tries to shrink the creature you tapped in response, Impelled Giant will receive less power. However, if the tapped creature leaves the battlefield before the ability resolves, the game uses its 'last known information' to determine how much power it had before it departed.
Tactical Timing
You can activate this ability multiple times in a single turn as long as you have untapped red creatures to spend. To maximize damage, you should generally activate these abilities during your declare attackers step or even your main phase, ensuring the trample damage carries through for a lethal blow.
Interaction examples
Etali, Primal StormYou control Impelled Giant and cast Etali, Primal Storm. Even though Etali cannot attack yet without haste, you can immediately tap Etali to activate Impelled Giant's ability. As the ability resolves, it checks Etali's power (6) and gives Impelled Giant +6/+0, making it a 9/3 with trample.
Goldspan DragonYou attack with Goldspan Dragon, which triggers its ability to create a Treasure token. Before the blockers are declared, you tap the now-attacking Goldspan Dragon (which is a red creature) to activate Impelled Giant's ability. Impelled Giant gets +4/+0. Note that since Goldspan Dragon was already attacking, tapping it for the Giant's cost does not remove it from combat.
Guide written with AI from the official text and rulings. Official English text prevails.
How it works : Impelled Giant
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
Since the activated ability doesn't have a tap symbol in its cost, you can tap creatures that haven't been under your control since your most recent turn began to pay the cost.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #2· Wizards of the Coast
The power of the creature you tap is checked as the ability resolves, not as the creature is tapped, and not at any later time should the power of that creature change. If that creature is no longer on the battlefield as the ability resolves, use the power it had when it was last on the battlefield.
No other card is named in this ruling.
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