Bane's Contingency
- Mana cost
- {1}{U}{U}
- Type
- Instant
- Set
- Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate #57 (uncommon)
- Price
- $0.19 USD
Counter target spell. If that spell targets a commander you control, instead counter that spell, scry 2, then draw a card.
Bane's Contingency has 1 printing, first in Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (2022). EDHREC ranks it #6,605 among Commander cards. It appears most in Baral, Chief of Compliance decks (1,830 on EDHREC). It has 1 official ruling.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: not legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Commanders that run Bane's Contingency most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Baral, Chief of Compliance: 1,830 decks
- Elminster: 468 decks
- Bane, Lord of Darkness: 327 decks
- Galadriel of Lothlórien: 312 decks
- Kenessos, Priest of Thassa: 309 decks
- Denzilore Fatehold: 302 decks
- Matoya, Archon Elder: 232 decks
- Elrond, Master of Healing: 230 decks
Often played with Bane's Contingency
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : A "commander you control" means a permanent on the battlefield that is a commander and is under your control. It can be your commander or one owned by another player. It doesn't refer to your commander in any other zone. Notably, if a player uses Bane's Contingency to counter a spell that would counter their commander, they do not scry or draw a card.