Boar-q-pine
Creature — Boar Porcupine
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Avatar: The Last Airbender
- Price
- $0.14
- EDHREC rank
- #15233
Boar-q-pine is a 3/3 with both trample and porcupine (deathtouch on combat damage to creatures) for four mana — a decent roadblock that punishes anything that blocks or trades with it. The stats are fine but unspectacular; you run it when your deck specifically wants that deathtouch-plus-trample pairing to force through damage or deter attacks.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Boar-q-pine occupies the "budget deterrent" slot — a creature that opponents don't want to attack into and that pushes through damage in combat thanks to trample making deathtouch lethal to everything in its path. Constructed formats like Standard, Pioneer, and Modern have access to more efficient threats at four mana, so Boar-q-pine rarely makes those cuts. Pauper is its most competitive home outside Commander, where the trample-deathtouch combination on a common is a real threat at a reasonable rate. Legacy and Vintage simply have too much going on at four mana for Boar-q-pine to register.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.14 bulk tier
At $0.14, Boar-q-pine is bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not a market premium. That price is stable by definition; there's no demand spike coming for a four-mana vanilla-adjacent creature, so pick it up for a dollar rare-drafting haul and don't think twice.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.