Tectonic Giant doesn't change when you can play the exiled card. For example, if you exile a sorcery card, you can cast it only during your main phase when the stack is empty. If you exile a land card, you can play it only during your main phase and only if you have an available land play remaining.
Playing an exiled card causes it to leave exile. You can't play it multiple times.
An ability that triggers when a creature becomes the target of a spell resolves before the spell that caused it to trigger. It resolves even if that spell is countered.
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This printing is one of 2 catalogued treatments from SCD — the lineup includes Nonfoil alongside the standard finish. Across our catalog the Rarix library tracks every variant in the same family so collectors can compare price, scarcity and demand inside a single lineage.
Card #161 of *Starter Commander Decks*, the set that shipped alongside the December 2022 Starter Commander Decks release.
Card type: Creature — Elemental Giant, color identity red, printed at rare. Rares occupy the bottom-of-pack rare slot in standard boosters. Mana cost: {2}{R}{R} (4 converted).
Legal across the major constructed formats — Modern, Legacy, Vintage, and Commander — plus Standard rotation play.
EDHrec ranks this card #2,778 in Commander, putting it in the niche-pick tier of the format's playable pool.
Illustrated by Slawomir Maniak. Rarix catalogs 890 other cards credited to this artist.
Magic: The Gathering · ™ & © Wizards of the Coast · Illus. Slawomir Maniak
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If you don't play the exiled card that you chose, it remains in exile with the card you didn't choose.
Players can cast spells and activate abilities after the triggered ability resolves but before the spell that caused it to trigger does.
If a spell targets Tectonic Giant more than once, its ability triggers only once.
You choose which of the exiled cards you'll be able to play while the ability is resolving. You can't wait to pick one later. The other card remains in exile.
