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Kessig Dire Swine

Creature — Boar Horror4 generic manaGreen manaGreen mana

Six mana for a plain 6/6 is a rate the green stat-curve had outgrown long before this boar arrived, which makes the delirium clause less an upgrade than a justification: hit four or more card types in the yard and the body finally earns its slot by trampling over chump blockers; fall short and you are paying a premium for a wall. The design is honest about that bargain. Trample is exactly the keyword a big dumb green creature most wants, since the whole problem with a 6/6 ground-pounder is that a single 1/1 stonewalls it, and the payoff is calibrated to a graveyard the deck must actively seed rather than one that fills on its own. The friction is in the counting: four distinct card types is a real ask for a creature deck that would rather flood the board than salt its yard with instants, sorceries, lands, and artifacts. As a delirium teaching tool the card does clean work, putting the reward on a stat line simple enough that a newer player can read exactly what the mechanic buys and exactly what switching it on costs. It was never built to headline anything; it was built to give a midrange green deck a curve-topper whose ceiling rewards the same graveyard math the rest of the archetype is already doing.

Kessig Dire Swine (soi)
SOI · #214common
Pricing
Normal: $0.08
Foil: $0.24
Oracle Text

Rules text

Delirium — This creature has trample as long as there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard.
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
N/A
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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