Barktooth Warbeard
Legendary Creature — Human Warrior
- CMC
- 7
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BR
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Masters Edition III
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #15487
Barktooth Warbeard is a 6/5 trampler for seven mana — a stat block that was borderline acceptable decades ago and is simply outclassed today. The only shell where it earns a slot is Jodah, the Unifier, where every legendary creature becomes a cascade trigger regardless of how overcosted it is.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Jodah, the Unifier
Jodah, the Unifier treats every legendary spell as a free Cascade, which means Barktooth Warbeard's inflated cost stops mattering — you're playing it to chain into another legendary off the top, not to attack for six.
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 |
Barktooth Warbeard is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but that legality is mostly academic. In Legacy and Vintage, seven mana for a vanilla-adjacent creature is a non-starter — those formats end games before this resolves. Pauper is the one place where a 6/5 trample could theoretically matter, but Pauper's creature suite has long since surpassed this power level at lower costs. Commander is the only format where Barktooth Warbeard sees any real play, and even there it's almost exclusively a Jodah, the Unifier include, kept alive by the legendary-matters engine rather than its own merit.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data for Barktooth Warbeard isn't currently available, but as a narrow role-player in a single Commander archetype, expect it to sit at bulk or near-bulk — likely under a dollar. Pick it up if you're building Jodah, the Unifier and need legendary headcount; there's no reason to speculate beyond that.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.