Coalhauler Swine
Creature — Boar Beast
Whenever this creature is dealt damage, it deals that much damage to each player.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Ravnica: City of Guilds
- Price
- $0.15
- EDHREC rank
- #14968
Coalhauler Swine turns every point of damage it takes into a symmetrical punishment engine — pair it with Pariah's Shield and all combat damage to you redirects into a board-wide burn spell. The cost is a clunky six mana for a 4/4 with no evasion, so it lives and dies by the combo it enables; Piru, the Volatile decks run it for exactly that reason.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Piru, the Volatile
Piru, the Volatile already wants to deal damage to all non-Legends, and Coalhauler Swine sitting behind a Pariah's Shield converts that ping-everything gameplan into a recursive damage loop that clears the board while Piru is in play.
Auntie Blyte, Bad Influence
Auntie Blyte, Bad Influence rewards you for taking damage during your turn, and Coalhauler Swine with a damage-redirection shell generates exactly the kind of controlled self-ping that stacks +1/+1 counters and triggers Blyte's power-doubling ability.
Ashling the Pilgrim
Ashling the Pilgrim's activated ability pings every creature including itself, and Coalhauler Swine sitting on the field turns each of those activations into incidental chip damage across the table before Ashling goes nuclear.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Coalhauler Swine is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but realistically this is a Commander card — the combo payoff it enables requires a critical mass of redundant enablers and a slower game to assemble. In Pauper it's technically playable but a six-mana 4/4 with a conditional damage trigger competes poorly against the format's tempo demands. Legacy and Vintage don't want it at all; the text that makes Coalhauler Swine interesting is irrelevant at those speeds. Commander is the only format where the puzzle it solves is worth the mana to put it on the table.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Coalhauler SwineDawnsire, Sunstar Dreadnought
Near-infinite damage; Near-infinite lifegain
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Price Context
Current price
$0.15 bulk tier
At $0.15, Coalhauler Swine is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not scarcity. Demand is narrow enough that the price is unlikely to move unless a high-profile Piru or Blyte build puts it in the spotlight, so grab copies whenever you need them without a second thought.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.