Broadside Bombardiers

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Broadside Bombardiers: Creature - Goblin Pirate, The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander. Printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.

Mana cost
{2}{R}
Mana value
3
Type
Creature - Goblin Pirate
Colour identity
Red (R)
Power / toughness
2/2
Rarity
Rare
Set
The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC)
Released
2023-11-17
Collector number
86
Artist
Tomek Larek
Commander rank
5,177 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
Keywords
Boast, Haste, Menace

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About Broadside Bombardiers

Broadside Bombardiers is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare red creature from The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC), a Commander product released in November 2023. It is collector number 86 in that set, with art by Tomek Larek. It costs {2}{R} (two generic and one red mana) to cast, for a mana value of 3. It is a 2/2 creature. Its colour identity is red. It is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Timeless and Gladiator. It is banned in Historic. It has been printed in 3 sets. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $4.12 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-12).

Card text

Menace, haste

Boast - Sacrifice another creature or artifact: This creature deals damage equal to 2 plus the sacrificed permanent's mana value to any target. (Activate only if this creature attacked this turn and only once each turn.)

When they ran short on cannonballs, they went for the pots and pans.

Market price

Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $4.12 (as of 2026-11-12).

The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.

Format legality

Legality of Broadside Bombardiers by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.

LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
CommanderLegal
Duel CommanderLegal
OathbreakerLegal
BrawlLegal
HistoricBanned
TimelessLegal
GladiatorLegal

Other printings of Broadside Bombardiers

Broadside Bombardiers has been printed in 3 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.

PrintingRarityYear
Secret Lair Drop (SLD) #2410Rare2026
Arena Anthology 3 (AA3) #11Rare2025
The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC) #54Rare2023

Official rulings

Five official rulings apply to Broadside Bombardiers, newest first.

  • If it's not your turn and you gain control of a creature with a boast ability after that creature attacked, you can activate that creature's boast ability if it hasn't been activated yet that turn.
  • If an effect adds additional combat phases to a turn and a creature with a boast ability attacks more than once during that turn, its boast ability can still be activated only once.
  • The back face of a double-faced card doesn't have a mana cost. A double-faced permanent with its back face up has a mana value equal to the mana value of its front face.
  • If a creature with a boast ability is put onto the battlefield attacking, it was never declared as an attacker. Its boast ability can't be activated that turn.
  • A boast ability can be activated at any point after the creature with that ability has been declared as an attacker. This can be before blockers are declared, after blockers are declared but before combat damage is dealt, during combat after combat damage is dealt, during the postcombat main phase, during the end step, or, in some unusual cases, during the cleanup step.

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