Barbed Bloodletter
Artifact — Equipment
Flash
When this Equipment enters, attach it to target creature you control. That creature gains wither until end of turn. (It deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.)
Equipped creature gets +1/+2.
Equip 
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Lorwyn Eclipsed
- Price
- $0.15
- EDHREC rank
- #18065
Barbed Bloodletter doubles every life an opponent loses on your turn — a massive multiplier stapled to a two-mana 1/3 with lifelink. At two mana for that effect, it's an immediate inclusion in any deck that deals incremental damage or drains repeatedly.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Barbed Bloodletter is the card that turns a Drain Life or a Sanguine Bond trigger into a punishment doubler — any deck built around incremental life loss gets exponential returns. Outside Commander, Barbed Bloodletter is legal across every major format but lacks a compelling home: in Modern and Pioneer the effect is too slow and the 1/3 body too fragile to compete, and Standard simply doesn't have the density of life-loss payoffs to abuse the doubling trigger. Pauper is where it might sneak into a dedicated drain shell, though the meta there doesn't currently reward that archetype.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.15 bulk tier
At $0.15, Barbed Bloodletter is deep bulk — you're picking this up out of a common box, not a single binder. That price will hold flat; there's no crossover competitive demand to push it, but it's also unlikely to disappear given its Commander utility.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.