Broken Bond
Sorcery
Destroy target artifact or enchantment. You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $0.41
- EDHREC rank
- #2128
Broken Bond destroys an artifact or enchantment and puts a land into play from your hand — two lines of text that together justify the two-mana ask in any green deck running enough lands to fuel the second effect. Nine-Fingers Keene decks run it at a 34% clip for good reason: the land drop isn't a consolation prize, it's the point.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Nine-Fingers Keene
Nine-Fingers Keene wants every land drop it can get to fuel its connive-and-copy engine, and Broken Bond delivers removal plus a free land entry in one spell — that's two triggers for the price of one card.
Sergeant John Benton
Sergeant John Benton rewards playing at instant speed and keeping mana open, so Broken Bond's sorcery timing is the one concession here — but the land acceleration lines up well with Benton's need to hit drops while holding up interaction.
Jolrael, Voice of Zhalfir
Jolrael, Voice of Zhalfir triggers off drawing cards each turn, and Broken Bond accelerates the land drops that keep the engine liquid — clearing an enchantment while landing a Basic is exactly the kind of tempo swing the deck wants on turn two or three.
Tatyova, Benthic Druid
Tatyova, Benthic Druid turns every land drop into a draw and a life gain trigger, so Broken Bond's bonus land isn't just ramp — it's card advantage the moment Tatyova is in play.
Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle
Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle needs to hit land drops early and answer hate pieces fast, and Broken Bond does both in a single card, making it one of the cleaner two-mana plays in the deck.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Broken Bond earns its keep — artifact and enchantment removal is mandatory in a format where Rhystic Study and Sol Ring define tables, and the tacked-on land drop makes this meaningfully better than a straight Naturalize in any deck running 36-plus lands. In Pauper it's a genuine role-player, where the common card pool makes two-for-one effects scarcer and the land acceleration matters in slower games. Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer are hostile territory: sorcery speed removal that requires a land in hand is far too slow and conditional against the threats those formats present, and you'll almost never play it there. Vintage is legal but irrelevant — the card doesn't come close to the power threshold the format demands.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.41 bulk tier
At $0.41, Broken Bond is bulk in every sense — buy a playset and not feel it. The price is stable because supply is high and demand is steady but narrow, so don't expect it to move in either direction.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.