Prickleboar
Creature — Boar
During your turn, this creature gets +2/+0 and has first strike. (It deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $0.13
- EDHREC rank
- #28254
Prickleboar is a 3/2 with menace that gains +2/+0 until end of turn whenever you cycle a card — a solid body for aggressive red decks that want to turn looting into damage. The cycling synergy is real, but five mana is too much for a creature this replaceable outside dedicated cycling shells.
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 |
Prickleboar finds its best home in Pauper, where cycling payoffs are a legitimate archetype and the card pool doesn't punish a five-mana creature quite as harshly. In Commander, it's too slow and too small to matter — 100-card singleton formats demand either a bigger effect or a cheaper price tag, and Prickleboar delivers neither. Competitive constructed formats like Modern and Pioneer have cycling payoffs that close games faster, so Prickleboar doesn't make the cut there. Legacy and Vintage are non-starters; the power ceiling is simply too high.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.13 bulk tier
At $0.13, Prickleboar is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not power. There's no reason to expect that to change; it fills a niche role in Pauper cycling builds but will never be a chase card.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.