Rural Recruit
Creature — Human Peasant
Training (Whenever this creature attacks with another creature with greater power, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)
When this creature enters, create a 3/1 green Boar creature token.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Innistrad: Crimson Vow
- Price
- $0.06
- EDHREC rank
- #24929
Rural Recruit enters as a 3/2 Boar with trample for five mana — acceptable body, unacceptable rate. At 5 mana for a vanilla-adjacent creature with no enters-the-battlefield value, it's outclassed by nearly every comparable slot in Commander.
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 |
Rural Recruit is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but sees meaningful play in exactly one: Pauper, where the common-only card pool occasionally gives a 3/2 trample body more room to breathe. In Commander, five mana for a 3/2 with trample and no additional text is unplayable — the format's power level has long since left this kind of rate behind. Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer have no use for it at any stage of the game.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.06 bulk tier
At $0.06, Rural Recruit is deep bulk — the kind of card that fills a common box and rarely leaves it. No scarcity, no spike potential, no reason to acquire multiples.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.