Break Asunder
Sorcery
Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
Cycling 
(, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Scourge
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #22915
Break Asunder destroys any artifact or enchantment and replaces itself with a land — two concrete effects stapled together at four mana. It's not the most efficient removal spell available, but the built-in card advantage makes it a reliable slot in decks that want to hit land drops more than they want to spend one less mana.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Break Asunder is a Commander card — the format's slower pace and 40-life totals make the tempo cost of four mana acceptable in a way that 60-card formats don't. In pauper, it competes in a removal-dense environment where common-legal answers are plentiful, but the land-search rider is genuinely useful in green-based midrange shells that want to ramp and answer threats in the same turn. Legacy and Vintage are non-starters: the format speed demands cheaper interaction, and no competitive deck there needs a four-mana removal spell that finds a basic. In Commander, Break Asunder slots cleanly into green decks that already want Cultivate effects but need their ramp slots to pull double duty against problematic permanents.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Break Asunder is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not the card. That price won't move regardless of demand; commons with narrow competitive applications stay at the floor.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.