Illegitimate Business
Land
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.
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- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BG
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Price
- $0.24
- EDHREC rank
- #14790
Illegitimate Business puts a creature on the battlefield and a card in hand simultaneously — two resources for one spell, which is the kind of efficiency that earns a slot. Blech, Loafing Pest decks run it at over 20% inclusion because that token feeds the commander's damage triggers the same turn it enters.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Blech, Loafing Pest
Blech, Loafing Pest cares about creatures dealing damage to opponents, and Illegitimate Business delivers a ready-made attacker the same turn you cast it — the card draw stapled on top means you're not trading resources to fuel the engine, you're growing it.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Illegitimate Business earns its seat in token-and-value shells where getting a body and a card in a single spell keeps your hand from emptying mid-game. The effect is wide enough to slot into any black deck that wants to stay ahead on cards without dedicating slots to pure draw spells. In competitive 1v1 formats like Modern and Pioneer, a three-mana sorcery that produces a single token is too slow to see serious play — the rate doesn't keep up with what those formats demand at that cost. Pauper is the one 60-card format where it has a plausible niche, since card advantage attached to a body is more valuable when spell quality is constrained by rarity.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.24 bulk tier
At $0.24, Illegitimate Business is deep bulk — you're picking it up for the cost of a sleeve. That price is unlikely to move unless a high-profile Commander printing or Blech, Loafing Pest breakout pulls demand, so grab copies now if the slot fits.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Blech, Loafing Pest
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.