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Barrenton Medic

Creature — Kithkin Cleric

{T}: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn.
Put a -1/-1 counter on this creature: Untap this creature.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{4}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
common
Set
Shadowmoor
Price
$0.22
EDHREC rank
#15526
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Barrenton Medic card art
Barrenton Medic turns into a repeatable life-gain engine the moment Myrkul, Lord of Bones converts it into an enchantment — tap to gain life, untap via its own activated ability, repeat without ever going to the graveyard. The cost is steep: a five-mana 0/3 that does almost nothing in any shell that isn't explicitly built around that loop.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Myrkul, Lord of Bones

Myrkul, Lord of Bones

47.2% of decks · synergy 0.46

Myrkul, Lord of Bones turns Barrenton Medic into a permanent enchantment on death, letting the tap-and-untap loop run indefinitely without the creature ever dying again — that's the entire reason this card shows up in nearly half of all Myrkul lists.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper legal
oathbreaker legal

Barrenton Medic is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but competitive play in non-Commander formats is a non-starter — a five-mana 0/3 with no immediate board impact doesn't meet the bar anywhere that efficiency is measured in raw power. In Pauper it's technically on-color for lifegain strategies, but the cost-to-effect ratio loses badly to commons that generate life without jumping through hoops. Commander is the only home where Barrenton Medic earns its slot, and only inside a dedicated Myrkul, Lord of Bones build that can guarantee the enchantment conversion.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.22 bulk tier

At $0.22, Barrenton Medic sits firmly in bulk territory — buy a copy for a quarter and don't think twice about it. Demand is narrow enough that the price is unlikely to move meaningfully, even as Myrkul, Lord of Bones lists continue to populate the format.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.