Board wipes for Commander
A board wipe destroys most or all creatures at once, which is how a Commander game gets reset when someone builds an unanswerable board. These are ranked by how well each card matches the job, with the cheapest and most-played ones first.
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| Card | Cost | Type | What it does | Price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Blasphemous Act | {8}{R} | Sorcery | This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature on the battlefield. Blasphemous Act deals 13 damage to each creature. | $1.02 |
| 2 | Toxic Deluge | {2}{B} | Sorcery | As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life. All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn. | $4.40 |
| 3 | Farewell | {4}{W}{W} | Sorcery | Choose one or more — • Exile all artifacts. • Exile all creatures. • Exile all enchantments. • Exile all graveyards. | $6.15 |
| 4 | Damnation | {2}{B}{B} | Sorcery | Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated. | $21.06 |
| 5 | Living Death | {3}{B}{B} | Sorcery | Each player exiles all creature cards from their graveyard, then sacrifices all creatures they control, then puts all cards they exiled this way onto the battlefield. | $5.96 |
| 6 | Supreme Verdict | {1}{W}{W}{U} | Sorcery | This spell can't be countered. Destroy all creatures. | $2.30 |
| 7 | Ruinous Ultimatum | {R}{R}{W}{W}{W}{B}{B} | Sorcery | Destroy all nonland permanents your opponents control. | $2.42 |
| 8 | Wrath of God | {2}{W}{W} | Sorcery | Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated. | $4.15 |
| 9 | Kindred Dominance | {5}{B}{B} | Sorcery | Choose a creature type. Destroy all creatures that aren't of the chosen type. | $4.94 |
| 10 | Chain Reaction | {2}{R}{R} | Sorcery | Chain Reaction deals X damage to each creature, where X is the number of creatures on the battlefield. | $0.35 |
| 11 | Vanquish the Horde | {6}{W}{W} | Sorcery | This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature on the battlefield. Destroy all creatures. | $0.31 |
| 12 | Fumigate | {3}{W}{W} | Sorcery | Destroy all creatures. You gain 1 life for each creature destroyed this way. | $0.31 |
| 13 | Hour of Reckoning | {4}{W}{W}{W} | Sorcery | Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.) Destroy all nontoken creatures. | $0.29 |
| 14 | Cleansing Nova | {3}{W}{W} | Sorcery | Choose one — • Destroy all creatures. • Destroy all artifacts and enchantments. | $0.62 |
| 15 | Organic Extinction | {8}{W}{W} | Sorcery | Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.) Destroy all nonartifact creatures. | $0.33 |
| 16 | Decree of Pain | {6}{B}{B} | Sorcery | Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated. Draw a card for each creature destroyed this way. Cycling {3}{B}{B} ({3}{B}{B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, all creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn. | $0.33 |
| 17 | Time Wipe | {2}{W}{W}{U} | Sorcery | Return a creature you control to its owner's hand, then destroy all creatures. | $0.24 |
| 18 | In Garruk's Wake | {7}{B}{B} | Sorcery | Destroy all creatures you don't control and all planeswalkers you don't control. | $3.17 |
| 19 | Wave Goodbye | {2}{U}{U} | Sorcery | Return each creature without a +1/+1 counter on it to its owner's hand. | $1.88 |
| 20 | Crux of Fate | {3}{B}{B} | Sorcery | Choose one — • Destroy all Dragon creatures. • Destroy all non-Dragon creatures. | $3.32 |
| 21 | Urza's Ruinous Blast | {4}{W} | Legendary Sorcery | (You may cast a legendary sorcery only if you control a legendary creature or planeswalker.) Exile all nonland permanents that aren't legendary. | $0.81 |
| 22 | Blood Money | {5}{B}{B} | Sorcery | Destroy all creatures. For each nontoken creature destroyed this way, you create a tapped Treasure token. | $3.02 |
| 23 | Winds of Rath | {3}{W}{W} | Sorcery | Destroy all creatures that aren't enchanted. They can't be regenerated. | $0.33 |
| 24 | Evacuation | {3}{U}{U} | Instant | Return all creatures to their owners' hands. | $0.30 |
| 25 | Day of Judgment | {2}{W}{W} | Sorcery | Destroy all creatures. | $1.12 |
| 26 | Split Up | {1}{W}{W} | Sorcery | Choose one — • Destroy all tapped creatures. • Destroy all untapped creatures. | $2.45 |
| 27 | Nevinyrral's Disk | {4} | Artifact | This artifact enters tapped. {1}, {T}: Destroy all artifacts, creatures, and enchantments. | $1.44 |
| 28 | Liliana, Death's Majesty | {3}{B}{B} | Legendary Planeswalker — Liliana | +1: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token. Mill two cards. −3: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature is a black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types. −7: Destroy all non-Zombie c… | $0.43 |
| 29 | Perplexing Test | {3}{U}{U} | Instant | Choose one — • Return all creature tokens to their owners' hands. • Return all nontoken creatures to their owners' hands. | $0.27 |
| 30 | Ondu Inversion // Ondu Skyruins | {6}{W}{W} | Sorcery // Land | Ondu Inversion: Destroy all nonland permanents. // Ondu Skyruins: This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {W}. | $1.13 |
30 of 1256 cards the search scored for "board wipes for commander". Ordered by how much each card is played, among the cards that matched. Prices and legality come from Scryfall; the list was last refreshed on 2026-09-23.
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