Bazaar of Baghdad
Land
: Draw two cards, then discard three cards.
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Vintage Masters
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #10562
Bazaar of Baghdad draws two cards every turn for free — then makes you discard three, netting a card down each activation and filling your graveyard faster than almost any other permanent in the game. Run it because your deck wants cards in the graveyard, not in hand; in any other shell, it's a land that costs you cards.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | banned |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Bazaar of Baghdad is banned in Legacy, where the graveyard ecosystems it enables — Dredge especially — are fast enough to end games before opponents can interact. Vintage allows it but restricts nothing about the shell around it, which is why Dredge is a Vintage mainstay. Commander gives it a pass for the same structural reason it tolerates most broken cards: 40 life, four opponents, and a singleton rule mean a single unanswered engine rarely ends the game on turn two. The political pressure of a table and the natural variance of 100-card decks blunt the explosive ceiling that makes Bazaar oppressive in 60-card formats.
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Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Bazaar of Baghdad is an Arabian Nights rare with no mass-market reprint, which historically puts copies well into the hundreds of dollars — sometimes significantly higher for Near Mint originals. No current pricing data is available here, so check current TCGPlayer and ChannelFireball listings before budgeting; the spread between conditions is wide and the market moves.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.