Bohn, Beguiling Balladeer
Legendary Creature — Human Bard
Each nonland card in your hand without foretell has foretell. Its foretell cost is equal to its mana cost reduced by 
. (During your turn, you may pay and exile it from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)
Whenever you cast your second spell each turn, goad target creature an opponent controls.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- RU
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Secret Lair Drop
- Price
- $18.34
- EDHREC rank
- #11062
Bohn, Beguiling Balladeer hits the table and immediately starts converting opponents' creatures into your resources — the goad-and-steal angle generates card advantage and board presence at the same time. The cost is a three-color identity that narrows your commander options, but in any shell that wants to mess with combat, Bohn pulls serious weight.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Gwen Stacy
Gwen Stacy's gameplan revolves around goading opponents' creatures and capitalizing on the chaos, and Bohn, Beguiling Balladeer slots directly into that engine — the two cards reinforce the same attack-redirection loop and give the deck redundancy on its core mechanism.
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 |
Bohn, Beguiling Balladeer is a Commander card through and through — the multiplayer table is where goad and creature-theft generate real leverage, and four opponents mean Bohn's disruption scales in ways a 1v1 game never rewards. In Legacy and Vintage, where it's technically legal, the three-mana cost and creature type do nothing against the format's actual threats, so there's no realistic home there. Stick to Commander and Oathbreaker, where politics and combat manipulation are actual game mechanics worth building around.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
If Bohn, Beguiling Balladeer is out of range, Disrupt Decorum covers the mass-goad effect for under a dollar and asks nothing of your commander slot. Marisi, Breacher of the Coil is the other obvious comparison — it forces universal goad on attacks rather than targeted theft, trades the raw card-advantage ceiling for consistency, and costs a fraction of the price.
Price Context
Current price
$18.34 mid tier
At $18.34, Bohn, Beguiling Balladeer sits in mid-tier territory — expensive enough to feel like a deliberate inclusion, cheap enough that it won't blow a focused budget. It's a recent card with a narrow but passionate audience, so the price should stay stable as long as Gwen Stacy decks remain a presence in the format.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Gwen Stacy
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.