The Boulder, Ready to Rumble
Legendary Creature — Human Warrior Performer
Whenever The Boulder attacks, earthbend X, where X is the number of creatures you control with power 4 or greater. (Target land you control becomes a 0/0 creature with haste that's still a land. Put X +1/+1 counters on it. When it dies or is exiled, return it to the battlefield tapped.)
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Avatar: The Last Airbender
- Price
- $0.28
- EDHREC rank
- #5823
The Boulder, Ready to Rumble lands as a two-mana 4/4 with trample that self-bounces to your hand when it deals combat damage — a recurring, oversized threat that never truly goes away. Bumi, Unleashed decks run it in nearly 75% of lists because the bounce-and-replay loop feeds directly into that commander's landfall and enters-the-battlefield gameplan.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Bumi, Unleashed
Bumi, Unleashed wants creatures that enter the battlefield repeatedly, and The Boulder, Ready to Rumble delivers exactly that — every combat damage trigger reloads the engine for another cast, another ETB, another landfall hit.
Toph, Earthbending Master
Toph, Earthbending Master cares about creatures with power 4 or greater, and The Boulder, Ready to Rumble slots in as a cheap, recurring body that consistently clears that threshold while threatening combat damage every turn.
Toph, the First Metalbender
Toph, the First Metalbender rewards piling up high-power creatures, and The Boulder, Ready to Rumble offers a low-cost, perpetually available threat that keeps coming back rather than sitting in the graveyard after a trade.
Toph, Hardheaded Teacher
Toph, Hardheaded Teacher incentivizes running big creatures and punishing opponents in combat, making The Boulder, Ready to Rumble a natural fit as a cheap trample attacker that returns to hand and can be replayed every time the board resets.
Black Panther, Wakandan King
Black Panther, Wakandan King builds around voltron and combat-focused creature synergies, and The Boulder, Ready to Rumble provides a durable, self-replacing beater that keeps pressure on even when the board is wiped.
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 |
The Boulder, Ready to Rumble is legal across every major Constructed format — Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, and Commander — though Pauper is the one exception. In Commander, it earns its slot as a recursive threat in ETB and power-matters shells, where the combination of cheap mana cost and built-in bounce makes it reliably abusable across a long game. In faster 1v1 formats like Modern and Legacy, a 4/4 trample for two is genuinely above the rate curve, but the bounce trigger requiring combat damage rather than dealing damage on attack makes it inconsistent against interactive opponents. Pioneer and Standard players with creature-based strategies can extract real value from it, particularly in decks already running bounce-payoffs. Oathbreaker, like Commander, rewards the recursive angle most — if your signature spell puts anything into play or modifies power, The Boulder, Ready to Rumble becomes a repeatable engine piece.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.28 bulk tier
At $0.28, The Boulder, Ready to Rumble sits firmly in bulk territory, which undersells its actual playability in ETB and power-matters Commander builds. Bulk rares with this much synergy density in popular commander archetypes tend to stay cheap rather than spike, so there's no urgency to stockpile, but it's an easy inclusion at essentially no cost.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Bumi, Unleashed
- Toph, Earthbending Master
- Toph, the First Metalbender
- Toph, Hardheaded Teacher
- Black Panther, Wakandan King
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.