Bane Alley Broker

Creature — Human Rogue

{T}: Draw a card, then exile a card from your hand face down. You may look at cards exiled with Bane Alley Broker. UB, {T}: Return a card exiled with Bane Alley Broker to its owner's hand.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (25)

Macaronigrill5150 on Gorgeous Girls Deck(list)

2 years ago

Bane Alley Broker Blackbloom Rogue  ^Flip Thieves' Guild Enforcer

TriusMalarky on nonlegendary cards that'd be good …

3 years ago

Any reason for Bane Alley Broker other than the fact she's in a war bikini?

Brutal_B on nonlegendary cards that'd be good …

3 years ago

Bane Alley Broker

Brutal_B on Interdimensional Initiative

3 years ago

Yes psionictemplar, paying into Hexdrinker and then untapping to hold up mana for Abrupt Decay and/or Tyrant's Scorn would be part of the plan. Plus I'll be able to pay into Broker to get a card back on opponent's endstep or pay into Torrent Elemental to get it on the board.. And if I make Creeping Tar Pit a creature for unblockable damage, it will untap at endstep cuz its still a land, leaving me with more mana and a possible body for blocking. Then there's the cost for Magewright's Stone that I can activate targeting Broker to activate her again. If Nadir Kraken is on board I'll also have mana to pay into it after tapping Broker to draw. I guess when it comes down to it I wanna be doing stuff on my turn and opponent's turn and constantly getting tidbits of value that will hopefully pay off as the game goes on. I feel the only way to get Bane Alley Broker to work is to always have mana ready to spend.

Balaam__ on Interdimensional Initiative

3 years ago

I’m glad psionictemplar mentioned the specificity of Bane Alley Broker’s rulings. It prompted me to look it up in Gatherer and yup...they’re right. So I definitely agree with Templar in that if you’re designing the deck to revolve primarily around the Broker, you’re going to want as much protection as you can afford card slots for. Hexproof/Shroud are good as was mentioned; so is preemptive protection in the form of removal (Doomblade etc). Be wary of blinking him, he’ll become a new object upon reentry and you’ll lose the exiled card(s). Cloudshift type spells are to be avoided.

Brutal_B on Interdimensional Initiative

3 years ago

psionictemplar, I've been thinking about your suggestions and I'm keeping green. Hexdrinker, Search for Tomorrow and Wilderness Reclamation proved to be assets when I was playtesting. Plus having access to Abrupt Decay, Blossoming Defense and the sideboarded green cards are just too valuable to leave out.

As far as protecting Bane Alley Broker, I got Blossoming Defense and Robe of Mirrors. The latter conflicts with Magewright's Stone if targeting the same Broker, thus I choose to run 2 of each one.

Brutal_B on Interdimensional Initiative

3 years ago

Thanks Balaam__. Budget is not a concern at the moment as I'm just trying to flesh out this idea and not worry about physical cards yet. With that said, I'd like to keep prices below $40 a card.

Things I'd like to hit on as far as ideas for slots would be removal, counterspells, possibly tutors to find Bane Alley Broker and more/better ramp. Should I push this more towards midrange?

Bane Alley Broker begs to be broken...

rdean14 on Card creation challenge

4 years ago

Using the Mechanics of Cipher, although also works with Imprint (Isochron Scepter, if it becomes a creature) And some other cards, Bane Alley Broker, etc.

Circu of the Unknown

Legendary Creature - Human Wizard

Creatures you control that have at least one cards exiled with that creature (or should this being encoded on?) have hexproof and can't be blocked.

1/3

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