Barricade Breaker
Artifact Creature — Juggernaut
Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for 
.)
This creature attacks each combat if able.
"The Consulate sought to crush us. Let's give them a taste of their own medicine." —Venkat Dasai, renegade commander
7 / 5
Commander bracket
Derived from card traits, not a ruling — bracket rules turn on how a deck intends to use a card. Bracket rules
EDHREC
Combos
Not part of any combo on Commander Spellbook.
Format legality
Rulings
- 2017-02-09
Because improvise isn't an alternative cost, it can be used in conjunction with alternative costs.
- 2017-02-09
Equipment attached to a creature doesn't become tapped when that creature becomes tapped, and tapping that Equipment doesn't cause the creature to become tapped.
- 2017-02-09
If an artifact you control has a mana ability with
in the cost, activating that ability while casting a spell with improvise will result in the artifact being tapped when you pay the spell's costs. You won't be able to tap it again for improvise. Similarly, if you sacrifice an artifact to activate a mana ability while casting a spell with improvise, that artifact won't be on the battlefield when you pay the spell's costs, so you won't be able to tap it for improvise. - 2017-02-09
If, during your declare attackers step, Barricade Breaker is tapped or is affected by a spell or ability that says it can't attack, then it doesn't attack. If there's a cost associated with having it attack, you aren't forced to pay that cost, so it doesn't have to attack in that case either.
- 2017-02-09
Improvise can't be used to pay for anything other than the cost of casting the spell. For example, it can't be used during the resolution of an ability that says "Counter target spell unless its controller pays
." - 2017-02-09
Improvise can't pay for
, 
, 
, 
, 
, or 
mana symbols in a spell's total cost. - 2017-02-09
Improvise doesn't change a spell's mana cost or mana value.
- 2017-02-09
Tapping an artifact won't cause its abilities to stop applying unless those abilities say so.
- 2017-02-09
When calculating a spell's total cost, include any alternative costs, additional costs, or anything else that increases or reduces the cost to cast the spell. Improvise applies after the total cost is calculated.