Barkweave Crusher
Creature — Elemental Warrior
Enlist (As this creature attacks, you may tap a nonattacking creature you control without summoning sickness. When you do, add its power to this creature's until end of turn.)
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Dominaria United
- Price
- $0.07
- EDHREC rank
- #26574
Barkweave Crusher lands as a sizeable trample threat that gets bigger the more you've committed to the Forest subtype, punishing opponents who let it sit on board. The ceiling is real in dedicated Forests-matter builds, but the floor — a vanilla beater with no immediate impact — is too low for most tables.
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, Barkweave Crusher slots cleanly into Forests-matter and +1/+1 counter strategies where the payoff scales with a board state you're already building toward. Pauper is arguably its best format — the common slot means competition is leaner, and a trampling beater that grows without additional mana investment can close games in stompy shells. Modern and Pioneer have the raw card quality to make Barkweave Crusher look slow; it won't see serious play there. Legacy and Vintage are non-starters.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.07 bulk tier
At $0.07, Barkweave Crusher is deep bulk — you're picking it out of a dollar box, not tracking it on a buylist. Bulk rares rarely recover value unless a future set creates a dedicated archetype around the mechanic, so treat it as a free inclusion for the right deck, not a spec.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.