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Nessian Boar

Creature — Boar3 generic manaGreen manaGreen mana

A 10/6 that weaponizes the oldest trick in green combat and then hands the reward to the wrong player. The lure half is ancient: Lure has been mandating gang-blocks since the earliest sets, funneling every eligible blocker under one creature so a trampler or a deathtoucher can profit. The stapled card-draw clause inverts that math. Instead of the attacker cashing in on the forced pile-up, the defender draws a card for every body they throw in front of the boar, so swinging it into a wide board mass-blocks your 10 power into oblivion while filling your opponent's hand. The design reads as a puzzle rather than a threat: it only makes sense next to effects that punish the block you compelled (trample plus a pump spell, an attack trigger that fires before damage, a payoff for handing an opponent cards) or in a build that wants a symmetrical card-draw engine for some other reason. Left to attack on its own, it drags a crowd of blockers in and pays the defending player for each one. That tension is the point of the whole exercise: a body big enough to end games, welded to a trigger that actively sabotages the plan of simply attacking, so the mechanic that usually rewards green's combat aggression is bolted to a cost, and the deck that makes the cost worth paying is left for the builder to find.

Nessian Boar (pthb)
PTHB · #181srare
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Oracle Text

Rules text

All creatures able to block this creature do so. Whenever this creature becomes blocked by a creature, that creature's controller draws a card.
Legalities

Format Status

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