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Barbarian Class

Enchantment — Class

(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.)
If you would roll one or more dice, instead roll that many dice plus one and ignore the lowest roll.
{1}{R}: Level 2
Whenever you roll one or more dice, target creature you control gets +2/+0 and gains menace until end of turn.
{2}{R}: Level 3
Creatures you control have haste.

CMC
1
Mana cost
{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Adventures in the Forgotten Realms
Price
$0.33
EDHREC rank
#3882
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Barbarian Class card art
Barbarian Class lets you roll a d20 on every attack, and level three turns those rolls into extra combats — that's a meaningful amount of free chaos stapled to an enchantment that costs one red mana to enter. The total investment to hit level three is four mana spread across turns, which is slow enough to matter, but the Breath of Fury combo line and commanders like Wyll, Blade of Frontiers // Sword Coast Sailor make the ceiling high enough to justify it.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Wyll, Blade of FrontiersSword Coast Sailor

Wyll, Blade of Frontiers // Sword Coast Sailor

96.3% of decks · synergy 0.94

Wyll, Blade of Frontiers // Sword Coast Sailor is built around rolling dice and triggering on high results, so Barbarian Class is essentially a staple — the level-one trigger feeds Wyll's ability every combat, and the level-three extra-combat clause is exactly the kind of payoff a Wyll deck wants to chain.

02
Delina, Wild Mage

Delina, Wild Mage

95.3% of decks · synergy 0.94

Delina, Wild Mage creates token copies that attack alongside her, which means more attacks, more d20 rolls off Barbarian Class, and more chances to hit the level-three extra-combat threshold — the two cards accelerate each other naturally.

03
Mr. House, President and CEO

Mr. House, President and CEO

93.7% of decks · synergy 0.88

Mr. House, President and CEO rewards dice rolls with Servo tokens, so every attack trigger from Barbarian Class becomes board development on top of combat damage, making the enchantment one of the highest-value inclusions in the 93% of Mr. House decks that run it.

04
Myra the Magnificent

Myra the Magnificent

78.4% of decks · synergy 0.76

Myra the Magnificent cares about rolling dice to fuel her spellslinger engine, and Barbarian Class supplies a free roll every time she swings — nearly 80% inclusion across her decks confirms how well the two cards align.

05
Vrondiss, Rage of Ancients

Vrondiss, Rage of Ancients

64.1% of decks · synergy 0.63

Vrondiss, Rage of Ancients triggers off damage dealt to him, and the d20 rolls from Barbarian Class create a steady stream of combat interactions that feed his dragon-token engine across a long game.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Barbarian Class is a Commander card in practice — the dice-roll synergy ecosystem it plugs into barely exists outside of EDH, and the extra-combat payoff at level three is too slow and situational for competitive sixty-card formats. In Modern and Pioneer it's legal but essentially unplayed; no archetype there wants to invest four mana across multiple turns for a probabilistic extra-combat effect. Legacy and Vintage have the card legal but ignore it entirely for the same reason. Commander is where Barbarian Class earns its slot, specifically in decks built around dice rolls, extra combats, or both — the card does real work in those shells and almost nowhere else.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

59 decks
Breath of FuryBarbarian Class

Breath of FuryBarbarian Class

Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite combat damage; Infinite combat phases; Infinite creature tokens with haste; Infinite death triggers; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite untap of creatures you control

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Garth One-EyeDisplacer KittenBarbarian Class

Garth One-EyeDisplacer KittenBarbarian Class

Infinite card draw for any number of players; Infinite casts of all spells created by Garth One-Eye except Shivan Dragon; Infinite colored mana; Infinite copies of a specific artifact; Infinite draw triggers for any number of players; Infinite magecraft triggers; Infinite storm count

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Price Context

Current price

$0.33 bulk tier

At $0.33, Barbarian Class is bulk, and that price reflects its narrow application rather than any lack of power within its home format. It's stable at this tier — casual demand from Commander keeps it from dropping further, but the ceiling is equally low since it will never break out of its niche.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.