Barkform Harvester
Artifact Creature — Shapeshifter
Changeling (This card is every creature type.)
Reach
: Put target card from your graveyard on the bottom of your library.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Bloomburrow
- Price
- $0.20
- EDHREC rank
- #4438
Barkform Harvester puts a repeatable artifact-creature token engine on the board at a low mana investment, and the payoff compounds fast in decks that care about tapping dwarves or flipping from the bottom of libraries. It's a staple in Grenzo, Dungeon Warden and Magda, Brazen Outlaw lists precisely because the tokens it generates do real mechanical work, not just add bodies.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Grenzo, Dungeon Warden
Barkform Harvester's artifact-creature tokens enter from the bottom of the library when Grenzo, Dungeon Warden activates, feeding the engine directly and turning each activation into a board-building event.
Magda, Brazen Outlaw
Barkform Harvester produces dwarf tokens that tap to generate treasure through Magda, Brazen Outlaw's ability, accelerating the five-treasure threshold for tutoring artifacts or dragons.
River Song
River Song rewards casting spells in unexpected orders, and Barkform Harvester slots in as a value piece that generates tokens without needing a specific spell sequence — reliable fodder for River Song's counter-stacking gameplan.
Muerra, Trash Tactician
Muerra, Trash Tactician leverages artifact sacrifice and graveyard recursion, and Barkform Harvester provides a steady stream of expendable artifact tokens to feed that loop without requiring additional setup.
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 |
Barkform Harvester is legal across every major format, but its real home is Commander, where the token generation scales over a long game and synergizes with tribal or artifact-matters commanders. In competitive 1v1 formats like Modern or Pioneer, a three-mana creature that doesn't immediately impact the board is too slow against proactive strategies. Pauper is the one 60-card format where it could see fringe play in artifact-token shells, though better options exist at the same mana cost. Treat it as a Commander card — that's where the inclusion rate data confirms it earns its slot.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Magda, Brazen OutlawClock of OmensBarkform Harvester
Infinite tapped Treasure tokens; Put all artifact cards and a subset of creature cards from your library onto the battleifeld
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Grenzo, Dungeon WardenWorkhorseBarkform Harvester
Infinite LTB; Infinite ETB; Infinite death triggers
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Grenzo, Dungeon WardenThreefold ThunderhulkAshnod's AltarBarkform Harvester
Infinite LTB; Infinite ETB; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite death triggers; Infinite colorless mana
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Grenzo, Dungeon WardenOrcish BowmastersAshnod's AltarBarkform Harvester
Infinite LTB; Infinite ETB; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite death triggers; Infinite damage
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Grenzo, Dungeon WardenThreefold ThunderhulkBarkform HarvesterPhyrexian Altar
Infinite LTB; Infinite ETB; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite death triggers
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Current price
$0.20 bulk tier
At $0.20, Barkform Harvester sits firmly in bulk territory, meaning acquisition cost is never a barrier to testing it. Bulk rares with narrow but genuine combo applications tend to stay cheap unless a high-profile deck pushes demand, so pick up copies now if the synergy fits your build.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.