Piggy Bank
Artifact Creature — Boar Toy
When this creature dies, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Duskmourn: House of Horror
- Price
- $0.25
- EDHREC rank
- #11074
Piggy Bank is a novelty item masquerading as a Magic card — it produces Treasure tokens at a glacial pace and asks you to spend mana every turn to do it. There are cheaper, faster, and more reliable ways to generate Treasure in every format it's legal in.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Piggy Bank is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Standard, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but legality and playability are not the same thing. In Commander, where the card pool is deepest, Treasure generators like Goldspan Dragon or Smothering Tithe outclass it by a wide margin — Piggy Bank's slow accumulation doesn't match the pace of a 100-card singleton format. In 60-card formats, the opportunity cost is even steeper: mana-efficient artifact payoffs and token generators don't leave room for a three-mana do-nothing unless there's a specific loop that makes the math work, and there isn't one here.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.25 bulk tier
At $0.25, Piggy Bank sits firmly in bulk territory, and that price reflects its real demand. It's a collectible curiosity — the kind of card that ends up in a novelty binder rather than a sleeve — so don't expect it to hold even this floor without a reprint or a new Treasure synergy pushing it.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.