Trading Post
The Brothers' War Commander 169 • rare
- Set
- The Brothers' War Commander
- Collector number
- 169
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana cost
- 4 generic mana
- Type
- Artifact
- Colors
- Colorless
- Artist
- Adam Paquette
- Market price
- $0.39
What it does
1 generic mana, tap, Discard a card: You gain 4 life.
1 generic mana, tap, Pay 1 life: Create a 0/1 white Goat creature token.
1 generic mana, tap, Sacrifice a creature: Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.
1 generic mana, tap, Sacrifice an artifact: Draw a card.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Trading Post was originally introduced in the Magic: The Gathering expansion Magic 2013 and later reprinted as part of The Brothers' War Commander set in 2022. The card is a colorless artifact designed to provide players with a versatile utility tool, offering four distinct modes that allow for resource generation, life gain, or the retrieval of destroyed artifacts from the graveyard. Its design reflects the mechanical complexity and modular nature of utility artifacts often found in the game's broader design philosophy.
The card was illustrated by Adam Paquette, who imbued the art with the weathered, utilitarian aesthetic common to the artificers of the Magic multiverse. Within the context of The Brothers' War, which focuses on the lore of Mishra and Urza’s conflict, the Trading Post serves as a thematic touchstone for the technological innovation and scrap-recovery efforts that defined that era of the game's narrative. It is widely regarded by players as a staple for artifact-centric Commander decks due to its repeatable, value-oriented abilities.
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