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Bazaar Trader

Creature — Goblin

{T}: Target player gains control of target artifact, creature, or land you control.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
rare
Set
Worldwake
Price
$5.55
EDHREC rank
#7138
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Bazaar Trader card art
Bazaar Trader lets you permanently give any permanent you control to an opponent — which sounds like a drawback until you're handing off an Archfiend of the Dross with no oil counters or a Demonic Pact you've already used. The two-mana 1/1 body is irrelevant; the activated ability is the entire reason it exists, and Blim, Comedic Genius players have been exploiting it since the day Blim was printed.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Blim, Comedic Genius

Blim, Comedic Genius

79.9% of decks · synergy 0.79

Blim, Comedic Genius already flies negative-value permanents to opponents on the attack — Bazaar Trader fills the same role on the ground and doesn't require combat, letting the deck gift Demonic Pact or Delusions of Mediocrity at instant speed without waiting for Blim to connect.

02
Zedruu the Greathearted

Zedruu the Greathearted

66.1% of decks · synergy 0.64

Zedruu the Greathearted draws cards and gains life for each permanent you own that an opponent controls, and Bazaar Trader is one of the cheapest ways to load up that count outside of Zedruu's own activation.

03
Iroh, Tea Master

Iroh, Tea Master

46.7% of decks · synergy 0.46

Iroh, Tea Master rewards giving opponents resources of any kind, and Bazaar Trader converts that political gifting into a triggered engine without spending Iroh's own ability.

04
Zidane, Tantalus Thief

Zidane, Tantalus Thief

37.4% of decks · synergy 0.37

Zidane, Tantalus Thief steals permanents from opponents, and Bazaar Trader closes the loop by returning stolen goods — or passing them along — without bouncing them back to their owner first.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Bazaar Trader is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it sees essentially zero play outside Commander. In Legacy and Vintage the activated ability is too slow and too narrow to matter — those formats want to win, not gift Illusions of Grandeur. Modern is technically legal territory, but no competitive Modern shell has any use for a tap-to-donate effect. Commander is the only format where Bazaar Trader is actually played, and even there it's narrowly slotted: you want it in donate-style decks built around Blim, Comedic Genius or Zedruu the Greathearted, not as a generic good card.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

There isn't a true budget replacement for Bazaar Trader because the tap-to-donate-any-permanent effect is uniquely its own — Donate hits instants and sorceries too but is a one-shot spell rather than a repeatable body. If you're in Rakdos and just need another way to offload cursed permanents, Harmless Offering does the same thing as a sorcery for two mana, though losing the repeatability is a real downgrade in grind games.

Price Context

Current price

$5.55 mid tier

At $5.55, Bazaar Trader sits in the mid tier — reasonable for a build-around with no functional reprint and a loyal niche audience. It's unlikely to spike without a new commander that rewards donating permanents, and it's unlikely to crash as long as Blim and Zedruu decks keep getting built.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.