Kessig Dire Swine
Creature — Boar Horror
Delirium — This creature has trample as long as there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Shadows over Innistrad
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #26226
Kessig Dire Swine is a 6/5 trample for six mana that becomes a 9/8 if you control a green or blue permanent — a passable rate in vacuum, but nothing that demands a deck be built around it. Cheaper, more efficient threats exist at every point on this curve, and trample alone doesn't justify the slot.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Kessig Dire Swine is a bulk rare in every format it's legal in, and Pauper is the only context where a vanilla-adjacent 6/5 trample might occasionally see play — and even there it faces stiff competition from cheaper green threats. In Commander, six mana for a beater with no ETB, no protection, and no built-in card advantage is a hard sell in a format defined by value engines and combo lines. Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, and Vintage have no use for it whatsoever; those formats demand efficiency that Kessig Dire Swine simply doesn't provide.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Kessig Dire Swine is deep bulk — the kind of card that costs more to ship than to buy. It will hold that floor indefinitely; there's no competitive demand to push the price anywhere.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.