Barbarian Lunatic
Creature — Human Barbarian
, Sacrifice this creature: It deals 2 damage to target creature.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Odyssey
- Price
- $0.03
- EDHREC rank
- #28848
Barbarian Lunatic trades itself to deal 2 damage to any target — a reasonable rate on paper, but a 3-mana 2/2 that requires dying to activate is too slow and too small to matter in most powered metas. It's a limited-format card occupying a Commander slot.
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 Lunatic sees essentially no competitive play in Legacy or Vintage, where 3-mana creatures need to do far more than ping for 2 on death. In Pauper it's legal but still outclassed by more efficient sacrifice payoffs and ping effects at common. Commander is the format most likely to house it, specifically in Juri, Master of the Revue or aristocrats shells desperate for cheap sacrifice fodder — but even there, Barbarian Lunatic competes against a deep pool of better recursive threats and damage triggers. The honest read: this is a card that fills a draft pick, not a deck slot.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.03 bulk tier
At $0.03, Barbarian Lunatic sits firmly in bulk territory and will stay there — demand simply isn't strong enough to move the needle. Buylist value is negligible, so the only reason to acquire copies is if you genuinely want them for a themed or budget build.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.