Argothian Swine
Creature — Boar
Trample
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Urza's Saga
- Price
- $0.12
- EDHREC rank
- #29041
Argothian Swine is a vanilla 3/3 trample for five mana — the board impact is unremarkable and the cost is simply too high for what you get. There is no shell in 2024 Magic where this rate is acceptable.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Argothian Swine is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legality and playability are different things. In Pauper, where the bar for green creatures is already punishing, a vanilla 3/3 trample for five gets outclassed by nearly every alternative at common. In Legacy and Vintage, it never sees play — the formats are too fast and too powerful for a five-mana do-nothing. Commander is the only format where bulk creatures occasionally find niche homes, but Argothian Swine offers no enters-the-battlefield effect, no synergy hook, and no text beyond trample, which green decks can find on far better bodies.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.12 bulk tier
At $0.12, Argothian Swine sits firmly in bulk territory, and that price reflects exactly what the card is worth. There is no trajectory that makes this a card to hold — pick it up if a casual build somehow calls for it and move on.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.