First printed in Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (2022)

All 10 prints

Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC) #155, 2026
Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC) #346, 2026
The List (PLST) #LCC-181, 2025
Assassin's Creed (ACR) #161, 2024
Assassin's Creed (ACR) #198, 2024
Assassin's Creed (ACR) #87, 2024
The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC) #181, 2023
Alchemy Horizons: Baldur's Gate (HBG) #145, 2022 (digital)
Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB) #620, 2022
Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB) #669, 2022

Black Market Connections

Enchantment

At the beginning of your first main phase, choose one or more —
• Sell Contraband — Create a Treasure token. You lose 1 life.
• Buy Information — Draw a card. You lose 2 life.
• Hire a Mercenary — Create a 3/2 colorless Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. You lose 3 life. (It is every creature type.)

Illustrated by: Evyn Fong

Legality

Legal in: Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Historic, Timeless, Penny Dreadful, Gladiator, Commander, Duel Commander, Tiny Leaders, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Competitive Brawl
Not legal in: Standard, Pioneer, Pauper, Future Standard, Alchemy, Premodern, Old School 93/94, Pauper Commander, PreDH, Standard Brawl

Prices

MTGO price: 0.006 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 1 Nov 2026).

Commander In 47 of 5718 decks (0.8%), most in Kefka, Court Mage

Commander metagame

Share of decks

0.8%

▼ 0.1 vs previous 30 days

Weekly, last 90 days

Decks

47 main, 0 sideboard

Avg. copies

1.0

in the main deck

Win rate

22%

9 top 8, leagues excluded

Weekly data

Week from	Share of decks
10 Aug	–
17 Aug	0.4%
24 Aug	1.1%
31 Aug	1.4%
7 Sep	0.6%
14 Sep	0.7%
21 Sep	0.6%
28 Sep	1.0%
5 Oct	1.0%
12 Oct	0.8%
19 Oct	0.6%
26 Oct	1.5%

Archetypes by metagame share

Archetype	Meta	Play it
Kefka, Court Mage	0.9%	2%
Tivit, Seller of Secrets	0.9%	6%
Marneus Calgar	0.8%	2%
Rowan, Scion of War	0.7%	3%
Dihada, Binder of Wills	0.5%	4%
Chatterfang, Squirrel General	0.3%	20%
Gwenom, Remorseless	0.3%	11%
Korvold, Fae-Cursed King	0.2%	21%

Played together with

Card	Together	Lift
Sol Ring	98%	1.0
Dark Ritual	81%	2.0
Command Tower	81%	0.9
Demonic Tutor	79%	1.7
Vampiric Tutor	79%	1.6
Arcane Signet	79%	1.2
Mana Vault	70%	0.8
Chrome Mox	70%	0.8
Lotus Petal	70%	0.8
Orcish Bowmasters	68%	2.0

Together: decks with this card that also play the other one (main deck)
Lift: how much more often than chance: 1 = unrelated, above 1 = played together on purpose

Best win rate

Deck	Record
Tivit, Seller of Secrets IGNACIO CORTES H in 2do Clasificatorio Nacional cEDH 2026 Sede La Serena	5-1 83%
Doctor Doom, King of Latveria Devon Hogan in TCG Commander Precon Tournament	4-1 80%
Sheoldred, the Apocalypse Mathew sherrell in The CEDH Witching Hour	1-4 20%
Slimefoot and Squee Peter Braunschweig in Black Sun Games - Western Maryland CEDH Showdown 3	1-4 20%
Gwenom, Remorseless Dayko5 in MBG Commanderpalooza #3 (TimeTwister event)	1-5 17%
Vren, the Relentless Sergio David Triana Zabala in CEDH SABANA - Cedh x Dual 2da edición VOLCANIC ISLAND	1-5 17%
Francisco, Fowl Marauder + Thrasios, Triton Hero Jesse Allen aka Mr. J in MBG Commanderpalooza #3 (TimeTwister event)	0-5 0%
Chatterfang, Squirrel General Cheyenne Aspen in Steel City Green Chile Slopper Tournament Series I	0-5 0%

Leagues excluded: MTGO publishes only the 5-0 decks.

Latest decks

Deck	Copies	Finish
Dihada, Binder of Wills Gwyndolin Vail, 1 Nov	1 main	#10 of 74 2-2
Ratadrabik of Urborg Danilo, 31 Oct	1 main	#1 (top 8) of 17 2-1
Trazyn the Infinite Will Blakely, 31 Oct	1 main	#4 (top 8) of 19 0-2
Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh + Tymna the Weaver Patrick Warren, 31 Oct	1 main	#14 of 32 1-3
Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER Charles Cartwright, 31 Oct	1 main	#25 of 32 0-3
Niv-Mizzet, Ghost Counsel Akinola Ojo, 31 Oct	1 main	#16 of 20 0-3
Doctor Doom, King of Latveria Devon Hogan, 31 Oct	1 main	#1 (top 8) of 29 4-1
Smaug, Wicked Worm NICK alyas Yawgmoth, 31 Oct	1 main	#1 (top 8) of 18 3-1

Vintage No decks in this period

Vintage metagame

No decks with this card in this period.