Breaking Point
Sorcery
Any player may have Breaking Point deal 6 damage to them. If no one does, destroy all creatures. Creatures destroyed this way can't be regenerated.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Duel Decks: Sorin vs. Tibalt
- Price
- $0.29
- EDHREC rank
- #18173
Breaking Point forces an opponent to choose between losing all their creatures or handing you an unblockable 6-damage hit — and either outcome advances your gameplan. Three mana for a pseudo-board-wipe or a guaranteed six damage is the kind of asymmetric pressure red rarely gets at that cost.
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 |
Commander is where Breaking Point earns its slot: multiplayer tables reward political pressure, and giving each opponent a separate bad choice compounds the damage. The six unblockable damage clause is especially punishing against life-total-matters commanders, and the destroy-all-creatures mode scales well in pods where someone always overextends on board. Legacy and Vintage are the only other formats where it's legal, but neither has a home for it — three mana at sorcery speed with opponent-controlled outcomes is too slow and too unreliable against efficient interaction. Breaking Point is a Commander card through and through.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.29 bulk tier
At $0.29, Breaking Point is pure bulk — easy to pick up in a trade binder or throw into a cart without thinking twice. It's unlikely to spike given its narrow appeal and single printing, but at this price the question is never cost, it's whether the effect earns a slot.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.