Barbarian Horde
Creature — Human Barbarian Soldier
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Portal Three Kingdoms
- Price
- $1.43
- EDHREC rank
- #30057
Barbarian Horde is a 5/5 for five with first strike — solid stats — but the protection ability requires your opponent to reveal their hand and discard a card of your choice only if they control a swamp, making it nearly useless outside dedicated discard builds that can force the condition. Unplayable in most contexts.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Barbarian Horde is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legal doesn't mean playable. In Commander, a 5/5 first striker for five mana competes against creatures that end games outright, and the discard trigger is too conditional to build around. In Legacy and Vintage, the card doesn't exist competitively — the format has moved well past five-mana vanilla-adjacent creatures. Pauper is its most forgiving home, but even there, five mana for a creature without evasion or immediate impact rarely makes the cut.
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Price Context
Current price
$1.43 cheap tier
At $1.43, Barbarian Horde sits in the cheap tier, but the price reflects demand accurately — there isn't much. Don't expect this to appreciate; it's a bulk rare in a niche that other cards fill better for less.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.