Banish from Edoras
Sorcery
This spell costs 
less to cast if it targets a tapped creature.
Exile target creature.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth
- Price
- $0.13
- EDHREC rank
- #18440
Banish from Edoras clears every nonland permanent your opponents control until your next turn — a temporary full-board reset stapled to a sorcery with a Tolkien watermark and no meaningful deckbuilding cost. The catch is the word "until," which means you need to close the game or generate a decisive advantage in that window, not just buy time.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Banish from Edoras is a reset button for the player who's ready to win the turn they cast it — bouncing all nonland permanents buys exactly one trip around the table, so the payoff depends entirely on what you do with the empty board. In Pauper, the common legality is notable, but five mana at sorcery speed for a temporary effect loses to faster, permanent answers the format already runs. Legacy and Vintage have the raw power to exploit a full board bounce, but Banish from Edoras competes with Upheaval and similar effects that cost less or leave opponents more permanently crippled. Oathbreaker mirrors the Commander read — high ceiling if your planeswalker can close from an empty board, low ceiling otherwise.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.13 bulk tier
At $0.13, Banish from Edoras sits firmly in bulk territory — the kind of card you pick up as a throw-in and never think about again price-wise. Don't expect movement; it's a narrow, format-specific effect with no scarcity driving demand.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.