Bazaar Trademage
Creature — Human Wizard
Flying
When this creature enters, draw two cards, then discard three cards.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Jumpstart: Historic Horizons
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #22828
Bazaar Trademage draws you three cards the turn it enters — that's the headline. The cost is real: you discard two cards and the draw is locked to your first draw step each turn, so it rewards decks that want cards in the graveyard, not decks that just want card advantage.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Bazaar Trademage slots cleanly into self-mill and reanimator strategies where the two-card discard is a feature, not a drawback — filling the graveyard while replacing itself is genuine value. Legacy and Vintage have faster, more broken ways to enable graveyard synergies, so Bazaar Trademage is a casual pick in those formats at best. Modern is theoretically legal but the competition for three-drop blue creatures is steep enough that it rarely makes the cut outside of dedicated discard-matters builds. Oathbreaker shares Commander's multiplayer context and the same graveyard strategies apply.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Price data isn't available for Bazaar Trademage right now, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for current market rates. It's a niche card with a narrow home, so it tends to stay budget-friendly outside of any graveyard-strategy demand spikes.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.