Woolly Razorback
Creature — Boar Beast
This creature enters with three ice counters on it.
As long as this creature has an ice counter on it, prevent all combat damage it would deal and it has defender.
Whenever this creature blocks, remove an ice counter from it.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Coldsnap
- Price
- $0.51
- EDHREC rank
- #18458
Woolly Razorback enters with three ice counters that must be removed before it can attack or block, meaning your 7/5 trampler is roadblocked on offense for at least three turns — a steep price for a creature that wants to be aggressive. Outside of decks built around Abigale, Eloquent First-Year, where that counter-removal is baked into the game plan, it's a bulk rare for good reason.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Abigale, Eloquent First-Year
Abigale, Eloquent First-Year's ability to remove counters from creatures turns Woolly Razorback's ice counters from a punishing drawback into a non-issue, unlocking a 7/5 trample body on demand and making it one of the more natural fits in that 99.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Woolly Razorback is legal in Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Commander, and Oathbreaker, but sees essentially no play in any of them. In competitive eternal formats, a seven-mana creature that can't attack or block immediately is unplayable on rate — there are simply no shells where this trades favorably against what else you could run. In Commander, the multiplayer environment theoretically buys time to strip those ice counters, but a 7/5 vanilla trample isn't a payoff worth building around unless your commander specifically interacts with counters. It's a card that exists in formats without belonging to any of them.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.51 bulk tier
At $0.51, Woolly Razorback sits firmly in bulk territory, and that price is unlikely to move without an unforeseen combo or reprint spike. Pick it up if Abigale, Eloquent First-Year is your commander; otherwise there's no practical reason to seek it out.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.