Warbringer
Creature — Orc Berserker
Dash costs you pay cost 
less (as long as this creature is on the battlefield).
Dash 
(You may cast this spell for its dash cost. If you do, it gains haste, and it's returned from the battlefield to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.)
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Dragons of Tarkir
- Price
- $0.13
- EDHREC rank
- #24879
Warbringer cuts the cost of your Warrior spells by two mana, turning clunky four-drops into cheap two-drops the turn it enters. If you're running a Warrior tribal shell, it's a mandatory inclusion.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is the only format where Warbringer earns a slot — specifically in Warrior tribal decks built around Najeela, the Blade-Blossom, where a persistent two-mana cost reduction on your whole tribe is backbreaking. In competitive non-rotating formats like Legacy and Modern, Warrior tribal doesn't have the density or speed to compete, and Warbringer's three-mana body is too slow to matter before the game ends. Pioneer has no Warrior shell strong enough to support it. Warbringer is a Commander card through and through: a tribal payoff that compounds over a long game rather than racing to close one fast.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.13 bulk tier
At $0.13, Warbringer is deep bulk — the kind of card you pull from a common box or pick up as a throw-in. It holds no speculative value, but if you're building Warrior tribal in Commander, you're paying almost nothing for a card that does real work in the right shell.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.