Bazaar Trader is one of those cards players keep asking about. Here is, in plain words, what its official text says, the rulings published by Wizards of the Coast, and the combos players actually run.
Official card text
: Target player gains control of target artifact, creature, or land you control.
How it works : Bazaar Trader
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
This effect has no duration. The targeted player retains control of the targeted permanent until the game ends, the permanent leaves the battlefield, or an effect causes someone else to gain control of it.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #2· Wizards of the Coast
If either the targeted player or the targeted permanent is an illegal target by the time the ability resolves, the ability does nothing. The player won’t gain control of the permanent.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #3· Wizards of the Coast
You may target yourself with Bazaar Trader’s ability. Normally, this won’t have any visible effect. However, the ability would override an effect with a limited duration that gave you control of a permanent. For example, if you temporarily gained control of a creature with Act of Treason, targeting yourself and that creature with Bazaar Trader’s ability would then cause you to gain control of the creature indefinitely.
No other card is named in this ruling.
Popular combos
Real combos played by the community, sorted by popularity.
Archfiend of the Dross + Heartless Act + Bazaar Trader
- 1Cast Heartless Act by paying
, removing up to three oil counters from Archfiend of the Dross. - 2Activate Bazaar Trader by tapping it, giving control of Archfiend of the Dross to an opponent.
- 3At the beginning of the opponent's next upkeep, Archfiend of the Dross triggers, causing the opponent to remove an oil counter from it and lose the game.
Razorkin Needlehead + Vilis, Broker of Blood + Bazaar Trader
- 1Activate Bazaar Trader by tapping it, giving control of Vilis to an opponent.
- 2During that opponent's draw step, they draw a card.
- 3Razorkin Needlehead triggers, dealing 1 damage to the opponent.
- 4Vilis triggers, causing the opponent to draw a card.
- 5Repeat from step 3 until the opponent loses the game either due to drawing from an empty library, or from having 0 life.
Nekusar, the Mindrazer + Vilis, Broker of Blood + Bazaar Trader
- 1Activate Bazaar Trader by tapping it, giving control of Vilis to an opponent.
- 2During that opponent's draw step, they draw a card.
- 3Nekusar triggers, dealing 1 damage to the opponent.
- 4Vilis triggers, causing the opponent to draw a card.
- 5Repeat from step 3 until the opponent loses the game either due to drawing from an empty library, or from having 0 life.
Yarus, Roar of the Old Gods + Karlov Watchdog + Altar of Dementia + Bazaar Trader
- 1Activate Bazaar Trader by tapping it, giving control of Karlov Watchdog to an opponent.
- 2During the opponent's turn, activate Altar of Dementia by sacrificing a face-down creature you control.
- 3When the creature dies, Yarus's second ability triggers, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield face-down as a 2/2 creature, and then not turning it face-up due to Karlov Watchdog.
- 4Resolve the Altar of Dementia ability.
- 5Repeat from step 2.
Blightbeetle + Phyrexian Altar + Bazaar Trader
- 1Donate Blightbeetle to an opponent
- 2Activate Phyrexian Altar by sacrificing the undying creature.
- 3When the undying creature dies, its undying ability triggers, returning itself from your graveyard to the battlefield without a +1/+1 counter on it due to Blightbeetle.
- 4Repeat from step 2.
Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph + Gisela, Blade of Goldnight + Sakashima of a Thousand Faces + Bazaar Trader
- 1Activate Bazaar Trader by tapping it, giving control of Gisela to an opponent.
- 2Deal exactly two or three damage to the opponent, which is reduced to one by Gisela, triggering Ghyrson Starn and Sakashima of a Thousand Faces.
- 3Resolve the Ghyrson Starn trigger, dealing 1 damage to the opponent.
- 4Sakashima of a Thousand Faces triggers, dealing 1 damage to the opponent.
- 5Ghyrson Starn triggers, dealing 1 damage to the opponent.
- 6Repeat from step 4.
Consecrated Sphinx + Notion Thief + Bazaar Trader
- 1Activate Bazaar Trader by tapping it, giving control of Notion Thief to an opponent.
- 2During that opponent's draw step, they draw a card.
- 3Consecrated Sphinx triggers, causing the opponent to draw two cards due to Notion Thief.
- 4Consecrated Sphinx triggers twice.
- 5Resolve the first trigger, causing the opponent to draw two cards due to Notion Thief.
- 6Repeat from step 4 until the opponent loses the game due to drawing from an empty library.
Basalt Monolith + Relic Putrescence + Bazaar Trader
- 1Activate Basalt Monolith's first ability by tapping it, adding
. Relic Putrescence triggers. - 2Holding priority, activate Basalt Monolith's second ability by paying
, untapping it. - 3Repeat steps 1 and 2 eight additional times, and then repeat step 1 once. This will result in a total of ten Relic Putrescence triggers.
- 4Holding priority, activate Bazaar Trader by tapping it, donating Basalt Monolith to an opponent.
- 5Resolve all Relic Putrescence triggers, causing the opponent who controls it to get ten poison counters. They will then lose the game as a state-based action.
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