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
{4}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
rare
Set
Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate
Price
$0.29
EDHREC rank
#19068
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Call to the Void card art
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

FormatVerdict
commander
legacy
modern
pioneer
standard
vintage
pauper
oathbreaker

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.

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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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    Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.