Blade-Tribe Berserkers
Creature — Human Berserker
Metalcraft — When this creature enters, if you control three or more artifacts, this creature gets +3/+3 and gains haste until end of turn.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Scars of Mirrodin
- Price
- $0.06
- EDHREC rank
- #29401
Blade-Tribe Berserkers enters as a 6/6 with haste and trample when you control three or more artifacts — a legitimate threat for four mana that closes games the turn it lands. Without that artifact count, it's a vanilla 3/3 for four, which is unplayable in any competitive context.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Blade-Tribe Berserkers is a role-player in artifact-dense strategies — not a staple, but a cheap, high-ceiling threat that earns its slot when the deck reliably hits three artifacts by turn four. In Pauper, artifact synergy decks are real and the card is legal, but the format's efficient removal and the strict artifact requirement make it a fringe inclusion at best. Legacy and Vintage have no interest here — four mana for a conditional creature doesn't register when those formats end games faster. Oathbreaker mirrors Commander's verdict: fine in the right artifact shell, irrelevant everywhere else.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.06 bulk tier
At $0.06, Blade-Tribe Berserkers is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not the card. That price is stable indefinitely; there's no reprint pressure or demand spike that moves a conditional four-drop creature in either direction.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.