Barkhide Mauler
Creature — Beast
Cycling 
(, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Onslaught
- Price
- $0.08
- EDHREC rank
- #27688
Barkhide Mauler enters as a 4/4 for two mana — that's the headline — but the adapt cost means paying four more to grow it to a 6/6 with a +1/+1 counter. Efficient enough for counter-synergy shells, filler everywhere else.
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 |
Pauper is where Barkhide Mauler actually competes — a 4/4 for two is a genuine threat at common, and the adapt upside is a real late-game mana sink in slower matchups. In Commander, the baseline body is fine for a +1/+1 counter deck, but the adapt trigger only fires if no counter is already on it, which limits synergy with proliferate lines that would otherwise make it appealing. Legacy and Vintage are legal but irrelevant — the card sees zero play at those power levels.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.08 bulk tier
At $0.08, Barkhide Mauler is deep bulk — the kind of card you find in a collection box, not a singles order. That price is stable because demand is essentially zero outside of budget Pauper lists.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.