Bane, Lord of Darkness
Legendary Creature — God
As long as your life total is less than or equal to half your starting life total, Bane has indestructible.
Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, target opponent may have you draw a card. If they don't, you may put a creature card with equal or lesser toughness from your hand onto the battlefield.
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- Set
- Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB #415)
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana value
- 4
- Released
- 2022-06-10
- Artist
- Justine Mara Andersen
- EDHREC rank
- #14,013
- Colour identity
- Finishes
- Nonfoil, Foil
- Served from
- Local database
Commander bracket
Derived from card traits, not a ruling — bracket rules turn on how a deck intends to use a card. Bracket rules
EDHREC
Combos
Not part of any combo on Commander Spellbook.
Commander recommendations
Top synergy 50
Played far more in this commander's decks than elsewhere.
- Mulldrifter
- Teysa Karlov
- Karmic Guide
- Shriekmaw
- Grim Haruspex
- Chasm Skulker
- Viscera Seer
- Luminous Broodmoth
- Solemn Simulacrum
- Midnight Reaper
- Priest of Fell Rites
- Plaguecrafter
- Zulaport Cutthroat
- Athreos, God of Passage
- Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
- Cruel Celebrant
- Victimize
- Drivnod, Carnage Dominus
- Sun Titan
- Liesa, Forgotten Archangel
- Blood Artist
- Bartolomé del Presidio
- Accursed Marauder
- Deadly Dispute
- Reveillark
- Pitiless Plunderer
- Village Rites
- Burnished Hart
- Gixian Puppeteer
- Ashnod's Altar
- Braids, Arisen Nightmare
- Carrion Feeder
- Corrupted Conviction
- Baleful Strix
- Reassembling Skeleton
- Bastion of Remembrance
- Spark Double
- Body Launderer
- Ruthless Lawbringer
- Queza, Augur of Agonies
- Stormscape Familiar
- Wall of Omens
- Morbid Opportunist
- High Market
- Phyrexian Reclamation
- Phyrexian Tower
- Junji, the Midnight Sky
- Rite of Oblivion
- Cathar Commando
- Teferi's Ageless Insight
Most included 50
Highest share of decks running them, distinctive or not.
- Swamp
- Plains
- Island
- Command Tower
- Arcane Signet
- Sol Ring
- Arcane Sanctum
- Exotic Orchard
- Mulldrifter
- Swords to Plowshares
- Solemn Simulacrum
- Sunken Hollow
- Teysa Karlov
- Karmic Guide
- Reliquary Tower
- Talisman of Hierarchy
- Talisman of Dominance
- Prairie Stream
- Midnight Reaper
- Chasm Skulker
- Victimize
- Shriekmaw
- Godless Shrine
- Baleful Strix
- Caves of Koilos
- Viscera Seer
- Grim Haruspex
- Watery Grave
- Sun Titan
- Raffine's Tower
- Priest of Fell Rites
- Isolated Chapel
- Luminous Broodmoth
- Hallowed Fountain
- Plaguecrafter
- Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
- Talisman of Progress
- Orzhov Signet
- Zulaport Cutthroat
- Dimir Signet
- Athreos, God of Passage
- Counterspell
- Cruel Celebrant
- Glacial Fortress
- Void Rend
- Drivnod, Carnage Dominus
- Azorius Signet
- Blood Artist
- Liesa, Forgotten Archangel
- Path to Exile
Format legality
Rulings
- 2022-06-10
Bane's last ability looks at the toughness of the creature that died, not Bane's toughness.
- 2022-06-10
If Bane, Lord of Darkness is dealt lethal damage at the same time that its controller's life total is reduced to less than or equal to half their starting life total, Bane will have indestructible at the time state-based actions are performed and survive.