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Barren Glory

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control no permanents other than this enchantment and have no cards in hand, you win the game.

CMC
6
Mana cost
{4}{W}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
rare
Set
Future Sight
Price
$1.26
EDHREC rank
#17335
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Barren Glory card art
Barren Glory wins the game — on your upkeep, if you control no other permanents and have no cards in hand. The catch is the setup cost: you need to clear your own board and hand simultaneously, which means cards like Renounce do real work here, not just flavor.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Barren Glory lives. The 100-card singleton format gives you access to enough redundant enablers and tutors to reliably assemble the empty-board, empty-hand state, and political tables often let a janky win condition survive long enough to fire. Legacy and Vintage are legal but irrelevant — faster formats punish the tempo loss of dismantling your own position, and opponents will just kill you before your upkeep. Barren Glory is a Commander card through and through: a conversation piece with a real kill condition attached.

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Price Context

Current price

$1.26 cheap tier

At $1.26, Barren Glory sits in impulse-buy territory — you're not making a budget decision, you're making a deckbuilding one. Niche alternate-win cards at this price tend to stay flat; demand is narrow and reprint risk is low, but so is upside.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.