Cleansing Screech
Sorcery
Cleansing Screech deals 4 damage to any target.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $0.06
- EDHREC rank
- #29661
Cleansing Screech wipes all artifacts and enchantments from a single player's board for four mana at instant speed — a focused, surgical hit that spares your own permanents entirely. It's a narrow card with a real ceiling: against the right opponent at the right moment, it's a blowout.
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 |
Cleansing Screech is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker — but Commander is the only format where it earns a serious look. In Commander, targeting one player's board is a meaningful political tool, and the instant speed lets you hold up interaction rather than telegraph your turn. In Pauper, where the card is technically legal, the four-mana cost and single-player scope are too narrow against decks that go wide or go fast. Legacy and Vintage have access to better answers at lower costs, so Cleansing Screech never competes there.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.06 bulk tier
At $0.06, Cleansing Screech is deep bulk — you're picking it out of a common box, not a store shelf. That price reflects its narrow demand, not a hidden sleeper; there's no scarcity story here.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.