Gibbering Barricade
Creature — Nightmare Wall
Defender
, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life and draw a card.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Dominaria United
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #19032
Gibbering Barricade puts two bodies on the battlefield for three mana — a 1/4 defender and a 1/1 token — while also functioning as a sacrifice outlet that nets mana when you feed it creatures. The cost is that everything involved has defender, which hard-caps its aggression, but in engines that want fodder and mana, that restriction barely registers.
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 |
Commander is where Gibbering Barricade earns its keep, slotting into sacrifice and token shells that want cheap, self-replacing permanents — the built-in sac outlet and mana return make it a quiet engine piece rather than filler. In Pauper it's legal but competes in a format where every slot is contested and a three-mana do-little-on-attack creature rarely makes the cut outside very specific combo builds. Modern, Pioneer, Legacy, and Vintage have the raw power density to render Gibbering Barricade essentially invisible — it's not that it's bad, it's that nothing in those formats is slow enough to care about what it offers.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Gibbering Barricade is pure bulk — you're paying shipping costs, not card costs. Bulk rares with narrow applications tend to stay at this floor indefinitely unless a commander or combo breaks them into the spotlight.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.