Banishment Decree
Instant
Put target artifact, creature, or enchantment on top of its owner's library.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Mirrodin Besieged
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #28675
Banishment Decree puts any nonland permanent on top of its owner's library — no exile, no destruction, just a clean tempo reset that handles indestructible threats and shrouded creatures most removal can't touch. Five mana at instant speed is the honest cost, and for a catch-all answer it's an acceptable one in Commander.
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 |
Banishment Decree earns its slot in Commander, where five mana at instant speed is par for catch-all removal and the ability to answer any permanent type — artifacts, enchantments, planeswalkers, creatures — is genuinely rare on a single card. Pauper is its other real home, where the card pool is shallow enough that unconditional bounce at common rarity carries real weight. In Legacy and Vintage, five mana is a death sentence against the decks you'd need it for, and targeted permanent removal that doesn't permanently answer the threat isn't worth a slot. Oathbreaker sits closer to Commander in pace, so the calculus there is roughly the same.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Banishment Decree is deep bulk — it costs less than a sleeve. That price is stable by definition; there's no demand floor to fall through, and a common with no competitive format relevance won't spike.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.