Cut the Earthly Bond
Instant — Arcane
Return target enchanted permanent to its owner's hand.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Saviors of Kamigawa
- Price
- $0.16
- EDHREC rank
- #26983
Cut the Earthly Bond exiles a permanent with an aura attached to it — a clean two-for-one that removes both the enchanted threat and its enchantment in a single spell. At one white mana, the efficiency is real, but the narrow targeting condition means you're dead in the water against unenchanted permanents.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Cut the Earthly Bond earns a slot in white decks that expect to see Auras regularly — whether that's O-Ring effects on opponents' creatures, Animate Dead reanimating something dangerous, or a Curse sitting on a player. Legacy and Vintage have too many unenchanted threats that matter for this to be generically playable, and Pauper's Aura-heavy aggressive decks make it a legitimate sideboard consideration there. The strict targeting requirement keeps it out of main decks in competitive formats, but in Commander's enchantment-dense metagame, Cut the Earthly Bond frequently finds a legal target and overperforms its cost.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.16 bulk tier
At $0.16, Cut the Earthly Bond sits firmly in bulk territory — a rounding error on any decklist. Bulk white removal this conditional rarely appreciates in price, so grab it for the utility and don't look for upside beyond that.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.