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Barbed Servitor

Artifact Creature — Construct MV 4

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What it does

Indestructible

When this creature enters, suspect it. (It has menace and can't block.)

Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Whenever this creature is dealt damage, target opponent loses that much life.

Combos with Barbed Servitor

Lines this card is part of — what it needs alongside it, and what the two of them do. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.

Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.

Rulings

7 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2024-02-02

    A creature can be dealt an amount of damage greater than its toughness. For example, if Barbed Servitor is dealt 3 damage, its last ability causes the target opponent to lose 3 life.

  • 2024-02-02

    If a creature is already suspected, suspecting it again won't have any effect.

  • 2024-02-02

    There's no limit to the number of creatures that can be suspected simultaneously. Suspecting a new creature doesn't cause other creatures to stop being suspected.

  • 2024-02-02

    If a suspected creature loses all abilities, it will lose menace and "This creature can't block", but it won't stop being suspected.

  • 2024-02-02

    If your life total is brought to 0 or less at the same time that Barbed Servitor is dealt damage, you lose the game before its last ability goes on the stack.

  • 2024-02-02

    When an effect suspects a creature, it becomes suspected. It gains menace and "This creature can't block" for as long as it's suspected. It stays suspected until it leaves the battlefield or another effect causes it to no longer be suspected.

  • 2024-02-02

    Being suspected isn't a copiable value. If a permanent becomes a copy of a suspected creature, it won't be suspected.

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Barbed Servitor, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 2
Games played 0
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games — not enough to publish a rate yet.
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Sahir, Visitor in Darkness 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Mono-Black 1 deck

Every version of Barbed Servitor

4 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly — a printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall genuinely publishes none for some of them.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Barbed Servitor — a name search across every version, for the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.

Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only — no individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.