Boiling Seas
Sorcery
Destroy all Islands.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Ninth Edition
- Price
- $2.29
- EDHREC rank
- #19977
Boiling Seas destroys all Islands — every one on the battlefield, every player's — for three mana at sorcery speed. It's a narrow hate card that does exactly one thing, and if your meta has blue mages worth punishing, it does that one thing well.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Boiling Seas is a Commander card through and through — the format's multiplayer structure means one casting can strip Islands from two or three opponents simultaneously, which is the only context where that symmetry becomes one-sided in your favor. In Legacy and Vintage it's theoretically legal but unplayable; dedicated Island destruction at sorcery speed can't compete in formats where tempo is measured in fractions of a turn. Modern and Pioneer have long since moved past this effect, and the card sees zero play there. In Commander, it lives in red decks that want to punish blue-heavy pods, sitting alongside cards like Boil as a one-of hate piece that can single-handedly collapse an opponent's mana base mid-game.
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Price Context
Current price
$2.29 cheap tier
At $2.29, Boiling Seas sits in the cheap tier — fair for a narrow hate card with a small audience. The price is stable rather than ascending; demand is real but thin, driven entirely by Commander players building anti-blue packages.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.