Prickleboar

Creature — Boar

As long as it's your turn, Prickleboar gets +2/+0 and has first strike. (It deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pauper	Legal
Pauper Duel Commander	Legal
Pauper EDH	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (1)

DroseraC on

8 years ago

To me, it seems like your attempted central theme is +1/+1 counters. I will guess that your "budget" is to stay under $50 total cost, so I'll try to suggest things that aren't expensive. And I'll also try to keep the color scheme, but I'll suggest things you may want to consider splashing for. I'm also going to avoid Khans/Fates cards because they're rotating very soon.

Loam Larva is not great for constructed. It puts the land on top of your library and kills your tempo. I would remove all 4. Mage-Ring Bully might make it in a Prowess deck, but you aren't that. Ditch him. Prickleboar, Rhox Maulers, Tajuru Pathwarden and Valeron Wardens aren't optimal, but aren't terrible. I'd suggest removing them, though. Territorial Baloth probably isn't the best either since you're not trying to abuse landfall. Removing all of these gives us 10 open creature slots. For your non-creatures, Act of Treason can be good but is typically a side-board card. Having it in your mainboard means it'll just sit in your hand against a control deck. Demolish isn't that great either, and there are better cards for what you're probably doing with it. Lightning Javelin and Touch of the Void are really bad burn choices, they should go. Ruin in Their Wake isn't a good choice unless you have a lot of Wastes - of which you have 0. Out it goes. Zendikar's Roil is like the Baloth, it's not awful but you're not really bringing the right cards to support it. It should go. This gives us seven noncreature slots.

I'd suggest looking in to running 4x Saddleback Lagacs. They're a pretty good Support creature. Bump up your count of Goblin Freerunners because getting a 3/2 Menace for 1R is pretty great, even if you have to surge it.

So, budget creatures you could look in to to fill those 10 slots above could be Servant of the Scale, Rot Shambler and Baloth Pup. They all interact with +1/+1 counters which you're getting from Support spells like Lagac, Nissa's Judgment and Gladehart. Some rares that could work, but are still pretty low cost, would be Undergrowth Champion, Oran-Rief Hydra and Outland Colossus. And of course, more Mana gorger Hydras wouldn't be a bad thing.

Noncreature spells that might work well are Inspiring Call which doubles as a combat trick and a draw spell. Natural Connection or Explosive Vegetation are better ramp spells, respectively because they're Instant or because they dig up more land than Ruin in their Wake does. Retreat to Kazandu might be nice, too, since it gives you a repeatable source of +1/+1 counters to distribute as you'd like. Finally, Sunbringer's Touch might give you a game-ender spell by allowing you to bolster, then swing through with a board of tramplers. Your burn spells would probably be better off as Fiery Impulse. Even if you're not reliably getting Spell Mastery quickly, the fact that they're instant is a huge bonus and it's easy enough to get 4x of them. And, of course, more Nissa's and another Chandra or two wouldn't be terrible.

Obviously, I understand that you're posting what you currently have. I'm just trying to suggest things that are inexpensive and would work with the kind of cards you seem to already be trying.