Crumble to Dust

Sorcery

Devoid (This card has no color.)
Exile target nonbasic land. Search its controller's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with the same name as that land and exile them. Then that player shuffles.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{3}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Pioneer Masters
Price
EDHREC rank
#28347
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Crumble to Dust permanently exiles a nonbasic land and then strips every other copy of it from the game — graveyard, hand, library included — which makes it the hardest answer available to problem lands like Cabal Coffers or Gaea's Cradle. Four mana at sorcery speed is the real cost, and in faster formats that's a dealbreaker.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander
legacy
modern
pioneer
standard
vintage
pauper
oathbreaker

In Commander, Crumble to Dust earns a slot specifically when your meta is full of high-value utility lands — hitting Cabal Coffers, Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx, or Cavern of Souls and erasing every copy from the game is a level of thoroughness no other land removal achieves. Competitive Commander tends to pass on it because four mana at sorcery speed is too slow when games end on turn 3 or 4, but at a casual-to-focused table it's a genuine answer rather than a temporary setback. In Modern and Legacy it's a fringe sideboard option against land-based combo decks, though both formats move fast enough that the sorcery speed and four-mana cost make it hard to justify over cheaper alternatives. Pioneer offers similar logic — theoretical fits but rarely sees play. Crumble to Dust is at its best in the one format where games go long enough for a four-mana sorcery to matter and where a single land can take over the game.

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Crumble to Dust is a bulk rare that typically trades in the $0.25–$0.75 range, reflecting its narrow role as a meta-dependent sideboard card. It's easy to pick up in a trade binder or as a throw-in, so if your Commander table regularly features degenerate lands, there's no reason not to own a copy.

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