Blade Banish
Instant
Exile target creature with power 4 or greater.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths
- Price
- $0.13
- EDHREC rank
- #21456
Blade Banish exiles any artifact or creature with power 4 or greater — no targeting restrictions, no saves — for four mana at instant speed. It's a clean, unconditional answer to the format's most threatening permanents, held back only by a cost that keeps it out of the most tempo-sensitive builds.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Blade Banish does exactly what the format demands: it answers Blightsteel Colossus, Etali, Primal Storm, and oversized equipment without caring about hexproof or protection. Four mana at instant speed is the floor for single-target removal in a 100-card format, and Blade Banish meets it while exiling rather than destroying. In Pauper it competes in a tighter removal market where the power-4 floor misses most of the format's relevant threats, limiting its role. Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer all have cheaper unconditional options, so Blade Banish doesn't make the cut in 60-card competitive play.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.13 bulk tier
At $0.13, Blade Banish is bulk — you're paying almost nothing for a genuinely functional removal spell. Bulk exile effects rarely spike, so there's no urgency to stock up, but at this price it's an easy include when your budget is tight.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.