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Eager Trufflesnout

Creature — Boar2 generic manaGreen mana

Green has never had trouble putting a four-power body on the board for three, but the four toughness usually comes with it; the trade here is inverted, a 4/2 that swings like something bigger and dies to almost any incidental damage. That fragility pays for the payoff, because trample and the combat-damage trigger both want the same outcome: the boar connects, and connection mints a Food. Trample means chumping a body this size still lets a point or two through, enough to stamp out a token even into a clogged board. The Food does the quiet work green usually outsources, handing an aggressive creature a lifegain floor without asking for a card or a color it lacks. It slots cleanly into the artifact-token economy that has grown up around Food: a green enabler that produces fodder as a byproduct of doing what green already wants to do, rather than a dedicated engine that sits back and grinds. The design logic is that the reward is gated behind attacking, which turns the token into a tax on the opponent's blocking math as much as a resource for its controller. Nothing about it is subtle, and nothing about it needs to be.

Eager Trufflesnout (fdn)
FDN · #102uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.19
Foil: $0.25
Oracle Text

Rules text

Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.) Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "2 generic mana, Tap, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
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Pioneer
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Modern
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Legacy
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Vintage
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Commander
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Pauper
N/A
Brawl
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Historic
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Alchemy
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Timeless
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Standard Brawl
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Future Standard
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TLR
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