Glister Bairn
Creature — Ouphe
Vivid — At the beginning of combat on your turn, another target creature you control gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of colors among permanents you control.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GU
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Lorwyn Eclipsed
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #22864
Glister Bairn is a mana sink that doubles the counter load on any permanent — land, creature, artifact, whatever carries counters — for just two mana and a tap. The repeatable activation is the whole point: in a dedicated counters deck it scales from nuisance to game-ending threat with minimal setup.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Glister Bairn earns a slot in any proliferate or +1/+1 counter shell where you can untap it repeatedly — Zegana, Glissa, or any Simic counters build that generates value from doubling up. Outside Commander, Glister Bairn is legal in Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but the two-mana tap activation is too slow for most competitive 60-card formats where faster counter payoffs exist. Pauper is the one format where it can't appear at all.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Glister Bairn is deep bulk — you're picking it out of a common box, not tracking it on a buylist. That price reflects supply, not utility; in the right counters deck it does real work, and there's essentially no financial downside to picking up a copy.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.