Crashing Boars

Green rarely reaches for removal, so it edits the block step instead, and this is one of the clearest statements of that philosophy. Every swing drags an untapped creature into the way, which reframes the body: the question is never whether a trade happens but who picks its terms. The card is honest about whose choice it is. The defending player chooses which untapped creature stands in front, so a board of mana dorks and chump-fodder feeds the Boar one body at a time, while a deck holding a single fat wall can park it in the path turn after turn and blank the swing without losing a thing. The balancing word is "untapped": an opponent who attacks back, or who simply has no untapped creatures left, takes the full hit unobstructed. That rewards an aggressor who has already pushed the opposing board into a corner where every blocker is committed elsewhere. It belongs to green's old "combat is a resource" school, where the color rewrote the rules of blocking rather than holding a spell it was never supposed to have. The cost lives in the same clause that makes it work: the trigger is mandatory and the defender does the choosing, so a patient opponent can script the trade they want rather than the one you need.