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Bane, Lord of Darkness

Legendary Creature — God MV 4

Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.

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What it does

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.

Rulings

2 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 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.

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Bane, Lord of Darkness, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 1
Games played 0
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games, which is not enough to publish a rate yet.
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Temmet, Naktamun's Will 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Esper 1 deck

Every version of Bane, Lord of Darkness

4 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly. A printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall publishes none for some of them.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Bane, Lord of Darkness. It runs a name search across every version, which covers the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.

Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only. No individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.