Bargaining Table
Artifact
, 
: Draw a card. X is the number of cards in an opponent's hand.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Mercadian Masques
- Price
- $0.40
- EDHREC rank
- #23225
Bargaining Table turns a board full of tapped creatures into a repeatable loot engine — each activation lets you draw then discard, filtering toward whatever you need. The setup cost is real: you need creatures, they need to be tapped, and a four-mana artifact that doesn't replace itself on entry demands a deck built around that constraint.
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 |
Commander is the only format where Bargaining Table realistically earns a slot — the 100-card singleton environment rewards cheap, repeatable card filtering, and multiplayer games go long enough to recoup the four-mana investment across many activations. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but irrelevant; those formats don't have time for a tap-outlet artifact when Brainstorm and Ancestral Recall exist. Oathbreaker is theoretically playable if the planeswalker strategy leans on attacking creatures, but the niche is narrow.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.40 bulk tier
At $0.40, Bargaining Table is deep bulk — the kind of card you pick up as an afterthought or pull from a common box. Bulk artifacts with narrow applications don't tend to spike unless a new commander breaks them wide open, so don't expect movement.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.