Consulate Crackdown
Enchantment
When this enchantment enters, exile all artifacts your opponents control until this enchantment leaves the battlefield.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Aether Revolt Promos
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #17579
Consulate Crackdown exiles every artifact your opponents control the moment it resolves — and gets those permanents back only if Consulate Crackdown itself leaves the battlefield. Stack it with Mycosynth Lattice and you're stripping lands, creatures, and enchantments simultaneously, leaving opponents with nothing but cards in hand.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Consulate Crackdown earns its slot — multiplayer tables are packed with mana rocks, Equipment, and artifact-based combos, and a single resolved Crackdown can functionally dismantle two or three opponents at once. Outside of Commander, competitive formats move too fast for a five-mana enchantment that doesn't win the game on the spot; Legacy and Vintage have better lock pieces at lower costs, and Modern artifact hate like Vanishing Verse or Collector Ouphe does the job cheaper and more efficiently. Pioneer is the one 60-card format where it's at least theoretically castable in a white control shell, but you're still asking a lot for five mana when the game is often decided by turn four.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Consulate CrackdownMycosynth Lattice
Exile all permanents opponents control; Mass Land Denial
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.