Barging Sergeant
Creature — Minotaur Soldier
Haste
Mentor (Whenever this creature attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on target attacking creature with lesser power.)
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Guilds of Ravnica
- Price
- $0.11
- EDHREC rank
- #22841
Barging Sergeant gives your whole attacking force menace until end of turn — a relevant combat trick stapled to a 3/3 body for four mana. The rate is unexciting, but in a go-wide aggro shell that wants to close games through blockers, it does real work.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Barging Sergeant slots into red aggro and go-wide token strategies that need to punch through developed boards, where mass menace is meaningfully harder to answer than single-target evasion. Pauper is where it actually competes on rate — commons don't often grant team-wide evasion at instant speed, and aggressive red decks at common can leverage that effect on a relevant body. In Modern and Pioneer, four mana for a 3/3 that requires attacking to trigger anything is just too slow against efficient interaction and faster clocks, so it doesn't make the cut. Legacy and Vintage ignore it entirely for the same reason.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.11 bulk tier
At $0.11, Barging Sergeant is pure bulk — pick it up for the price of nothing and don't look back. Demand is narrow enough that this price floor is stable; there's no realistic path to meaningful appreciation.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.