Call to the Void
Sorcery
Each player secretly chooses a creature they control and a creature they don't control. Then those choices are revealed. Destroy each creature chosen this way.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate
- Price
- $0.29
- EDHREC rank
- #19068
Call to the Void forces each opponent to exile all but one creature they control at the start of their upkeep — a repeating, asymmetric board clear stapled to a five-mana enchantment. The cost is that it does nothing the turn it lands and gets blanked by a single creature, so it wins in creature-heavy pods and folds to go-wide decks that can manage their board before the trigger resolves.
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 the natural home for Call to the Void — four opponents means four upkeep triggers, and the fact that each player must exile down to one creature taxes token strategies and creature-combo decks simultaneously. It slots best into stax and control builds that either ignore creatures entirely or run one threatening creature of their own, using the enchantment as a soft lock rather than a one-time wrath. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but irrelevant; five mana for a do-nothing-now enchantment has no competitive footing in formats where the game is often decided by turn two. Oathbreaker can support it in the same stax-adjacent shells that Commander does, though the smaller pod size blunts its multiplied value.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.29 bulk tier
At $0.29, Call to the Void is firmly bulk — you're paying almost nothing for an effect that would cost several dollars in a comparable enchantment-based wrath. Bulk rares with narrow applications tend to stay at this price floor, so there's no urgency in picking it up and no expectation it climbs.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.