Bargain
Sorcery
Target opponent draws a card.
You gain 7 life.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Portal Second Age
- Price
- $1.09
- EDHREC rank
- #23356
Bargain draws three cards for one black mana — the catch is sacrificing a noncreature, nonland permanent, which in the right deck is a feature, not a bug. If you're already running token artifacts, clues, or treasures as fodder, this is a one-mana Ancestral Recall with upside.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Bargain is a slam-dunk include in any black deck that generates disposable permanents — sacrifice synergy commanders treat the cost as free value. Legacy has better one-mana draw options and the permanent cost is genuinely awkward in fair decks, so Bargain sees minimal play there. Vintage is similar: the card is legal but gets outclassed by Ancestral Recall itself. Bargain's natural home is Commander, full stop, where the singleton format rewards cheap burst draw and token-generating strategies are everywhere.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$1.09 cheap tier
At $1.09, Bargain sits in impulse-buy territory — it's essentially free to slot in. Given how efficiently it converts junk permanents into three cards, this price should hold; cards that do this much for this little tend to creep up as more sacrifice commanders are printed.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.