Ridgescale Tusker
Creature — Pangolin Beast
When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on each other creature you control.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Kaladesh Remastered
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #17028
Ridgescale Tusker drops a +1/+1 counter on every other creature you control the moment it enters — in a deck with five or six creatures out, that's a board-wide pump for five mana. Emiel the Blessed turns that trigger into a repeatable counter engine, and Slinza, the Spiked Stampede makes every counter placed count double toward its own damage-based payoffs.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Slinza, the Spiked Stampede
Slinza, the Spiked Stampede cares about stacking +1/+1 counters across the board, and Ridgescale Tusker delivers exactly that in a single ETB — one five-mana spell that advances Slinza's gameplan across every creature you've built up.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Ridgescale Tusker is a Commander card through and through — the ETB payoff scales with a full board, and multiplayer games give you the time and creature density to make five mana feel efficient. In 1v1 formats like Modern, Legacy, or Pioneer, a 4/4 for five that requires other creatures to generate value is too slow and too fragile against spot removal; the effect simply doesn't compete with what those formats are doing on turn five. Oathbreaker is the closest analogue to Commander in terms of feel, and the Tusker is playable there for the same reasons — wide boards, slower pacing, ETB synergies rewarded.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Emiel the BlessedRidgescale TuskerCrystalline CrawlerCryptic Trilobite
Infinite +1/+1 counters on most creatures you control; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB
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Ridgescale TuskerCrystalline CrawlerCryptic TrilobiteEldrazi Displacer
Infinite +1/+1 counters on most creatures you control; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB
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Ridgescale TuskerCrystalline CrawlerCryptic TrilobiteDeadeye Navigator
Infinite +1/+1 counters on most creatures you control; Infinite blinking; Infinite colored mana; Infinite colorless mana that can only be spent to activate abilities; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB
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Cauldron of SoulsCorridor MonitorRidgescale TuskerAshnod's Altar
Infinite +1/+1 counters on most creatures you control; Infinite colorless mana; Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite sacrifice triggers
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Cauldron of SoulsCorridor MonitorRidgescale TuskerPhyrexian Altar
Infinite +1/+1 counters on most creatures you control; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite colored mana; Infinite death triggers; Infinite sacrifice triggers
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Current price
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Current pricing data for Ridgescale Tusker isn't available in this context, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the live number. It's a bulk-rare-range card in most markets, which makes it an easy include if the ETB fits your gameplan.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.