Bane Alley Broker

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Bane Alley Broker: Creature - Human Rogue, Gatecrash. Tap: Draw a card, then exile a card from your hand face down. Prices and printings on Mana Grove.

Mana cost
{1}{U}{B}
Mana value
3
Type
Creature - Human Rogue
Colour identity
Blue and black (UB)
Power / toughness
0/3
Rarity
Uncommon
Set
Gatecrash (GTC)
Released
2013-02-01
Collector number
145
Artist
Clint Cearley
Commander rank
25,653 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)

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About Bane Alley Broker

Bane Alley Broker is a Magic: The Gathering card, an uncommon blue and black creature from Gatecrash (GTC), an expansion set released in February 2013. It is collector number 145 in that set, with art by Clint Cearley. It costs {1}{U}{B} (one generic, one blue and one black mana) to cast, for a mana value of 3. It is a 0/3 creature. Its colour identity is blue and black. It is legal in Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker and Penny Dreadful. Gatecrash is its only printing so far. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.17 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-11).

Card text

{T}: Draw a card, then exile a card from your hand face down.

You may look at cards exiled with this creature.

{U}{B}, {T}: Return a card exiled with this creature to its owner's hand.

Market price

Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.17 (as of 2026-11-11).

The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.

Format legality

Legality of Bane Alley Broker by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.

PioneerLegal
ModernLegal
LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
CommanderLegal
Duel CommanderLegal
OathbreakerLegal
Penny DreadfulLegal

Official rulings

Five official rulings apply to Bane Alley Broker, newest first.

  • Bane Alley Broker’s second and third abilities apply to cards exiled with that specific Bane Alley Broker, not any other creature named Bane Alley Broker. You should keep cards exiled by different Bane Alley Brokers separate.
  • Even if not all players can look at the exiled cards, each card’s owner is still known. It is advisable to keep cards owned by different players in distinct piles in case another player gains control of Bane Alley Broker and exiles one or more cards with it.
  • If Bane Alley Broker leaves the battlefield, the cards exiled with it will be exiled indefinitely. If it later returns to the battlefield, it will be a new object with no connection to the cards exiled with it in its previous existence. You won’t be able to use the “new” Bane Alley Broker to return cards exiled with the “old” one.
  • If Bane Alley Broker’s first ability resolves when you have no cards in your hand, you’ll draw a card and then exile it. You won’t have the opportunity to cast that card (or do anything else with it) before exiling it.
  • Once you are allowed to look at a face-down card in exile, you are allowed to look at that card as long as it’s exiled. If you no longer control Bane Alley Broker when its last ability resolves, you can continue to look at the relevant cards in exile to choose one to return.

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