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Barricade Breaker

Artifact Creature — Juggernaut7 generic mana

Improvise turns an artifact-heavy board into a fast-cast discount, and this Juggernaut is the payoff waiting for that clutter: a 7/5 whose listed seven mana evaporates the moment you have a few artifacts to tap sideways. That's the trade the design is built around. Big artifact bodies are usually slow because the floor is the full cost; improvise lets the floor drop without changing the printed number, so the same card reads as a late-game brick and an early threat depending on how much affinity-style detritus you've assembled. The catch is the Juggernaut clause it inherits from the creature type's lineage: it attacks each combat if able. That's not flavor decoration; it zeroes out the card's defensive value and turns the 5 toughness into a liability against anything that punishes forced attacks. A body that has to swing into open mana every turn is a different card from one that can hold the ground, and the design wants you to deploy it when you're closing, not stabilizing. The result is a finisher with a built-in clock pointed at both players: it ends games quickly when you're ahead and feeds your opponent's blockers and removal when you're not. The artifact-cost reduction and the compulsion to attack are the two halves of the same idea, a creature priced to crash in and structurally unable to do anything else.

Barricade Breaker (klr)
KLR · #222uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.12
Foil: $0.33
Oracle Text

Rules text

Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for 1 generic mana.) This creature attacks each combat if able.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

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