Boompile
Artifact
: Flip a coin. If you win the flip, destroy all nonland permanents.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Treasure Chest
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #5240
Boompile is a four-mana artifact that threatens to wipe the board every turn — the catch is a coin flip that makes it unreliable as a standalone reset. In Okaun, Eye of Chaos // Zndrsplt, Eye of Wisdom decks, that unreliability flips into a feature: stacking flip triggers turns the "maybe" into a near-certainty while the rest of the deck goes wide on coin-flip payoffs.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Okaun, Eye of Chaos // Zndrsplt, Eye of Wisdom
Boompile fits directly into the coin-flip engine Okaun, Eye of Chaos // Zndrsplt, Eye of Wisdom is built around — every activation adds another flip for Zndrsplt to draw from and Okaun to double off, so running it here costs nothing and threatens a board wipe on demand.
Yusri, Fortune's Flame
Yusri, Fortune's Flame wants as many coin-flip triggers as possible, and Boompile provides a repeatable one that also doubles as a board wipe threat, giving the deck interaction that doubles as a payoff activator.
Ashaya, Soul of the Wild
Ashaya, Soul of the Wild turns creatures into Forests, and Boompile serves as colorless removal insurance for any board state that outpaces the green creature base — it's a pragmatic include rather than a synergy piece, filling a removal slot that green struggles to cover.
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 |
Boompile sees virtually no play in Legacy or Vintage, where four mana for a coin-flip board wipe is too slow and too inconsistent against the speed of those formats. Commander is its natural home: the multiplayer table gives the flip threat real political weight, and a coin-flip-matters commander turns the randomness from a liability into a resource. In Oathbreaker it functions similarly but is harder to justify without a coin-flip commander to contextualize the variance.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data for Boompile isn't currently available, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the latest. Given its narrow appeal outside coin-flip Commander builds, it has historically sat in the bulk-to-low-value range — worth grabbing cheap if you're building the archetype.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Okaun, Eye of Chaos // Zndrsplt, Eye of Wisdom
- Yusri, Fortune's Flame
- Ashaya, Soul of the Wild
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.