Barroom Brawl
Sorcery
Target creature you control fights target creature the opponent to your left controls. Then that player may copy this spell and may choose new targets for the copy.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate
- Price
- $0.29
- EDHREC rank
- #13364
Barroom Brawl turns every creature on the battlefield into a forced participant in a single combat, letting you redirect the carnage exactly where you want it for just two mana. It's a combat trick, a removal spell, and a board-shaping tool stapled together — conditional on having the right creature to win the fight, but devastating when you do.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Barroom Brawl is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but Commander is the only format where it earns a slot. In Legacy and Vintage, forced-combat effects are too slow and situational against spell-based strategies; those formats have no patience for a sorcery that needs the board to cooperate. In Commander, the multiplayer table means creatures are almost always present on multiple sides, and Barroom Brawl can engineer a political pile-up — killing an opponent's threat while your creature survives, without pointing a targeted removal spell at anyone. Oathbreaker mirrors Commander's logic in miniature, where it can punch above its weight if your planeswalker shell runs a resilient fighter.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.29 bulk tier
At $0.29, Barroom Brawl is firmly bulk — the kind of card you pick up as a throw-in without thinking twice. Bulk removal adjacents rarely appreciate unless they find a breakout combo home, and nothing currently pushes Barroom Brawl in that direction, so expect it to stay in this tier.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.