Banishment
Enchantment
Flash
When this enchantment enters, exile target nonland permanent an opponent controls and all other nonland permanents your opponents control with the same name as that permanent until this enchantment leaves the battlefield.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate
- Price
- $0.19
- EDHREC rank
- #16199
Banishment exiles a nonland permanent for four mana at instant speed — clean, unconditional, and usable on anything from a creature to a Planeswalker. The cost is real: four mana is a steep ask when three-mana removal is widely available, so Banishment earns its slot in formats or decks where broad permanent coverage matters more than efficiency.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Banishment is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it's a Commander card through and through. In 100-card singleton, the ability to hit any nonland permanent — enchantments, artifacts, Planeswalkers, creatures — justifies the four-mana price tag because you can't rely on drawing a specific answer. Legacy and Vintage have far more efficient removal options and the tempo loss is punishing, so Banishment sees essentially no play there. In Oathbreaker, the smaller starting life total and faster pace make the four-mana slot competitive, but it remains a reasonable inclusion when your signature spell package needs broad interaction.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.19 bulk tier
At $0.19, Banishment is deep bulk — easy to pick up as a playset for under a dollar. Broad unconditional removal tends to hold casual demand steadily, so don't expect it to spike, but it won't disappear from bulk bins either.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.