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Bladetusk Boar

Creature — Boar3 generic manaRed mana

Intimidate is the evasion keyword that scales with the format around it, and this is the plainest version of the deal: a 3/2 body that gets through any board lacking a red or artifact creature. In a heavily red mirror the keyword does almost nothing; against an opponent committed to white, blue, or black ground stallers, those three power show up unblocked turn after turn. The pricing logic lives entirely in that swing. A 3/2 for four mana with no evasion is unplayable filler, but the intimidate clause borrows value from your opponent's color choices rather than from your own deck, which is why the rate looks soft on paper and plays sharper than it reads when the matchup cooperates. Intimidate descended from the older fear keyword, which was the same idea narrowed to artifact and black blockers; widening the dodge to "shares a color with it" made the ability legible across all five colors at the cost of making it weaker in mono-red, where every opponent's red creature is a wall. The body itself is the tell that this was built as a commanding common: a glass-cannon 3/2 that wants to be attacking, not blocking, and that asks nothing of the rest of your deck beyond a willingness to race.

Bladetusk Boar (jou)
JOU · #90common
Pricing
Normal: $0.04
Foil: $0.25
Oracle Text

Rules text

Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
Legal
Pauper Commander
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
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