Vicious Battlerager
Creature — Dwarf Barbarian
When this creature enters, you take the initiative.
Spiked Retribution — Whenever this creature becomes blocked by a creature, that creature's controller loses 5 life.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate
- Price
- $0.10
- EDHREC rank
- #10797
Vicious Battlerager forces every opponent to lose life whenever they cast a noncreature spell — in a format where interaction, ramp, and draw are mostly noncreature spells, that clock adds up fast. The cost is a Dungeon restriction: you need to have completed a dungeon to get it into play, which means it lives in dedicated dungeon-running decks rather than generic black shells.
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 | banned |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Vicious Battlerager is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but banned in Pauper — where a repeatable group-drain effect at common rarity was too oppressive for the format's removal suite to answer cleanly. In Commander, the dungeon-completion restriction that would sideline it elsewhere barely registers as a cost: commanders like Acererak the Archlich complete dungeons as part of their core loop, meaning Vicious Battlerager enters play on curve and immediately starts taxing three opponents at once. Legacy and Vintage have the tools to answer it but almost no reason to run it; Commander is squarely its home.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Acererak the Archlich
Acererak the Archlich completes dungeons on a loop as its primary game plan, so Vicious Battlerager enters without friction and turns every counterspell, removal spell, and ramp spell your opponents cast into life loss — accelerating the table's clock while Acererak grinds toward a combo finish.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.10 bulk tier
At $0.10, Vicious Battlerager is deep bulk — pick it up in a common box or throw it in any order as a throw-in. There's no meaningful price floor to fall through, and given how narrowly it fits outside dungeon decks, that's unlikely to change.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.