Barricade Breaker
Artifact Creature — Juggernaut
Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for 
.)
This creature attacks each combat if able.
- CMC
- 7
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Kaladesh Remastered
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #19642
Barricade Breaker gives your entire artifact creature team trample for one mana if you're deep into an artifact-heavy board — the payoff is real when it lands on turn two or three of a Vehicles or constructs build. Eight mana at face value is a non-starter, but the improvise cost means a wide artifact board makes this free or near-free.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Barricade Breaker is a Commander card through and through — the improvise discount rewards the kind of wide artifact boards that commanders like Breya, Etherium Shaper or Urza, Lord High Artificer generate naturally, and trample on your whole team is a meaningful swing-finisher effect. In Modern and Pioneer it competes against a faster clock and more efficient payoffs, and improvise requires a specific board state that aggressive formats punish you for building toward. Legacy and Vintage have so many cheaper, broken artifact enablers that Barricade Breaker rarely makes the cut outside of a dedicated improvise shell. Commander is where the ceiling is highest, and even there it earns a slot only in decks built to flood the board with artifacts.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Price data for Barricade Breaker isn't available in the current context, so check Scryfall or your preferred retailer for a live number. Given that it's a narrow build-around with a low competitive profile outside Commander, it typically sits in bulk-rare territory and is easy to pick up without budget concern.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.