Crash and Burn
Instant
Choose one —
• Destroy target Vehicle.
• Crash and Burn deals 6 damage to target creature or planeswalker.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Aetherdrift
- Price
- $0.13
- EDHREC rank
- #18949
Crash and Burn destroys any permanent — artifact, enchantment, creature, planeswalker, whatever — for four mana at instant speed, with no targeting restrictions. That range is the whole pitch; the cost is real, but unconditional is unconditional.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Crash and Burn earns its slot by answering threats that narrower removal can't touch — a Darksteel Forge, an opposing Atraxa, a planeswalker ticking toward an emblem — all on one card. The four-mana price tag stings in a format where Generous Gift and Chaos Warp accomplish similar range for three, which keeps Crash and Burn as a role-player rather than a staple. Outside Commander, it sees essentially no competitive play — Legacy and Modern have faster, cheaper options, and even in Pauper the tempo loss is too steep for the formats' pace.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.13 bulk tier
At $0.13, Crash and Burn is deep bulk — the kind of card you pick out of a common box without thinking twice. Bulk rare prices rarely move unless a card breaks into competitive play, and nothing about Crash and Burn's current metagame presence suggests that's coming.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.