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Bane Alley Broker

Creature — Human Rogue1 generic manaBlue manaBlack mana

The genius of this rogue is that its draw never adds to your hand: every activation swaps a fresh card in for one already there, tucked away face down where only you can see it. That makes the 0/3 body less a card-advantage engine than a storage vault with a filter on the door. You exile the card you do not need yet (an expensive bomb, a situational answer, a piece you are protecting from a Hymn to Tourach effect) and dig toward what you do, then buy it back later for a manageable two-mana tax. The defensive frame matters in a different way than raw durability: a 0/3 will not trade up, but it absorbs early ground attackers and never dies in combat to the small creatures it blocks, so the broker often grinds across many turns rather than trading immediately. What it asks in return is patience and a clock from elsewhere, since it generates selection and resilience without ever pressuring an opponent. The face-down clause is also quietly self-protective: targeted discard cannot strip what is already exiled, and the broker is the only key back to it, so an opponent has to kill the creature to deny you the buried card. It is a design built for the long game in the colors most willing to play one, trading speed for the certainty that the right card will be waiting when you can finally afford to retrieve it.

Bane Alley Broker (gtc)
GTC · #145uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.11
Foil: $0.56
Oracle Text

Rules text

Tap: Draw a card, then exile a card from your hand face down. You may look at cards exiled with this creature. Blue manaBlack mana, Tap: Return a card exiled with this creature to its owner's hand.
Legalities

Format Status

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