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Bane, Lord of Darkness

Bane, Lord of Darkness

Legendary Creature — God · {1}{W}{U}{B} · Black/Blue/White commander

As long as your life total is less than or equal to half your starting life total, Bane has indestructible. Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, target opponent may have you draw a card. If they don't, you may put a creature card with equal or lesser toughness from your hand onto the battlefield.
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What Bane, Lord of Darkness actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

What a Bane, Lord of Darkness deck needs

Plays as aristocrats. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.

The Bane, Lord of Darkness deck plan

The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.

Best cards for Bane, Lord of Darkness

Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.

Expensive on paper, cheap to actually cast — the flip payoff for a mana-value damage trigger

  1. Dig Through Time8 mana
  2. Excalibur, Sword of Eden12 mana
  3. Treasure Cruise8 mana
  4. Vanquish the Horde8 mana
  5. Ancient Stone Idol10 mana
  6. Emrakul, the Promised End13 mana
  7. Hoarding Broodlord8 mana
  8. Metalwork Colossus11 mana

Evasion that does NOT target or attach — for a commander your own auras and equipment cannot legally touch

  1. Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive2 mana
  2. Akroma's Will4 mana
  3. Glaring Spotlight1 mana
  4. Wonder4 mana
  5. Reverse the Polarity3 mana
  6. Cultist of the Absolute1 mana
  7. Elspeth, Storm Slayer5 mana
  8. The Wind Crystal4 mana

Creatures you are happy to sacrifice — a free sac outlet on the commander is worthless with nothing to feed it

  1. Nurgle's Rot1 mana
  2. Ojer Taq, Deepest Foundation // Temple of Civilization6 mana
  3. Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal // Temple of the Dead5 mana
  4. Phyrexian Triniform9 mana
  5. The Scarab God5 mana
  6. Endless Evil3 mana
  7. Hildibrand Manderville // Gentleman's Rise2 mana
  8. Edgar, Charmed Groom // Edgar Markov's Coffin4 mana

Sacrifice a creature for no mana, repeatably

  1. Carrion Feeder1 mana
  2. Viscera Seer1 mana
  3. Altar of Dementia2 mana
  4. Bartolomé del Presidio2 mana
  5. Spawning Pit2 mana
  6. Umbral Collar Zealot2 mana
  7. Bloodthrone Vampire2 mana
  8. Cartel Aristocrat2 mana

Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it

  1. Path to Exile1 mana
  2. Swords to Plowshares1 mana
  3. Reality Shift2 mana
  4. Pongify1 mana
  5. Rapid Hybridization1 mana
  6. Resculpt2 mana
  7. Defile1 mana
  8. Tragic Slip1 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Demonic Tutor2 mana
  2. Diabolic Intent2 mana
  3. Vampiric Tutor1 mana
  4. Imperial Seal1 mana
  5. Demonic Consultation1 mana
  6. Grim Tutor3 mana
  7. Tainted Pact2 mana
  8. Scheming Symmetry1 mana

Answer a spell or ability before it resolves

  1. Mindbreak Trap4 mana
  2. Fierce Guardianship3 mana
  3. Force of Negation3 mana
  4. Force of Will5 mana
  5. Flare of Denial3 mana
  6. Pact of Negation0 mana
  7. An Offer You Can't Refuse1 mana
  8. Arcane Denial2 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Damn2 mana
  2. Vanquish the Horde8 mana
  3. Toxic Deluge3 mana
  4. Damnation4 mana
  5. Supreme Verdict4 mana
  6. Wrath of God4 mana
  7. Day of Judgment4 mana
  8. Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Esper Sentinel1 mana
  2. Mystic Remora1 mana
  3. Skullclamp1 mana
  4. Curiosity1 mana
  5. Wizard Class1 mana
  6. Black Market Connections3 mana
  7. Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
  8. Morbid Opportunist3 mana

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