Brood Keeper
Creature — Human Shaman
Whenever an Aura becomes attached to this creature, create a 2/2 red Dragon creature token with flying. It has "
: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn."
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Magic 2015
- Price
- $0.21
- EDHREC rank
- #24824
Brood Keeper turns every Aura you cast onto it into a 2/2 Dragon token with flying, generating board presence directly from your enchantment gameplan. The four-mana cost is the ceiling here — in formats where that's too slow, it doesn't compete, but in Commander it earns its slot.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Brood Keeper does real work, slotting into Dragon tribal builds and Aura-heavy enchantress strategies that already want to stack enchantments on creatures. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer, four mana for a conditional token generator is too slow against the field, and Brood Keeper sees essentially no play there. Legacy and Vintage are legal but irrelevant — the power bar is too high. Oathbreaker gives it a second home if your planeswalker strategy leans into Auras.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.21 bulk tier
At $0.21, Brood Keeper is deep bulk — you're not paying a premium for anything here. It's a stable bulk rare with no crossover demand from other formats, so the price floor is about as low as it gets and unlikely to move.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.