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Spellgorger Barbarian

Creature — Human Nightmare Barbarian3 generic manaRed mana

Most creatures with an enter-the-battlefield drawback ask you to pay it once and forget it. This one inverts that math: the random discard on entry is a tax you settle up front, and the card you draw when it dies is the refund. That structure quietly turns the body into a wash on raw card count, which is why it was built less as a beater and more as a recurrable engine piece. Bounce it, blink it, or sacrifice and recur it, and you cycle the leaves trigger every time, smoothing draws while the random discard fuels graveyard strategies that actively want cards in the bin. The 3/1 frame matters here: it dies easily, and a creature that wants to die over and over is doing exactly what its leaves trigger rewards. The discard being random rather than chosen is the friction that keeps the loop from being pure card advantage; you cannot reliably pitch the worst card in hand, so the engine churns through your library rather than letting you sculpt it. It reads as a midrange filler creature, but the design is closer to a reusable Faithless Looting stapled to a body, and that is the lens through which it earns a deck slot.

Spellgorger Barbarian (jud)
JUD · #100common
Pricing
Normal: $0.06
Foil: $0.39
Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature enters, discard a card at random. When this creature leaves the battlefield, draw a card.
Legalities

Format Status

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