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Barrowin of Clan Undurr
Legendary Creature — Dwarf Cleric · {2}{W}{B} · Black/White commander
When Barrowin enters, venture into the dungeon. (Enter the first room or advance to the next room.)
Whenever Barrowin attacks, return up to one creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield if you've completed a dungeon.
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What Barrowin of Clan Undurr actually does
Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.
- Triggered ability · etbWhen Barrowin enters, venture into the dungeon.
- Triggered ability · attackWhenever Barrowin attacks, return up to one creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield if you've completed a dungeon.
- Keyword · venture into the dungeonventure into the dungeon
What a Barrowin of Clan Undurr deck wants
The plan the Forge derives for this commander: the roles it fills and how many of each.
- 19× A creature that HAS the keyword the commander's trigger counts — a card that merely says the word is not one
- 13× Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide
- 9× Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
- 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 1× Answer a whole board at once
- 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 7× Refill your hand
- 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 11× Get ahead on mana
Best cards for Barrowin of Clan Undurr
Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.
A creature that HAS the keyword the commander's trigger counts — a card that merely says the word is not one
- Ranger's Hawk1 mana
- Triumphant Adventurer2 mana
- Acererak the Archlich3 mana
- Nadaar, Selfless Paladin3 mana
- Keen-Eared Sentry2 mana
- Cloister Gargoyle3 mana
- Yuan-Ti Fang-Blade3 mana
- Barrowin of Clan Undurr4 mana
Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide
- Dalkovan Encampment0 mana
- Elenda's Hierophant3 mana
- Elenda, the Dusk Rose4 mana
- Endless Ranks of the Dead4 mana
- Hero of Bladehold4 mana
- Myrel, Shield of Argive4 mana
- Parhelion II // Parhelion II0 mana
- Trendy Circus Pirate0 mana
Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
- Takenuma, Abandoned Mire0 mana
- Stitcher's Supplier1 mana
- Altar of Dementia2 mana
- Mindcrank2 mana
- Ripples of Undeath2 mana
- Codex Shredder1 mana
- Eden, Seat of the Sanctum0 mana
- Tomb Fortress0 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Path to Exile1 mana
- Swords to Plowshares1 mana
- Defile1 mana
- Tragic Slip1 mana
- March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
- Infernal Grasp2 mana
- Flicker of Fate2 mana
- Fatal Push1 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Final Showdown1 mana
- Vanquish the Horde8 mana
- Amalia Benavides Aguirre2 mana
- Do or Die2 mana
- Martyr's Cry2 mana
- Pest Control2 mana
- Force of Despair3 mana
- Split Up3 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Entomb1 mana
- Demonic Tutor2 mana
- Diabolic Intent2 mana
- Vampiric Tutor1 mana
- Lively Dirge2 mana
- Imperial Seal1 mana
- Insatiable Avarice1 mana
- Diabolic Intent2 mana
Refill your hand
- Esper Sentinel1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Orcish Bowmasters2 mana
- Black Market Connections3 mana
- Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
- Morbid Opportunist3 mana
- Phyrexian Arena3 mana
- Archivist of Oghma2 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
- Bastion Protector3 mana
- Greater Auramancy2 mana
- Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
- Cryptothrall4 mana
- Avacyn, Angel of Hope8 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Chrome Mox0 mana
- Everflowing Chalice0 mana
- Mox Amber0 mana
- Mox Diamond0 mana
- Mox Opal0 mana
- Mana Vault1 mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Wayfarer's Bauble1 mana