Deadly Cover-Up
Sorcery
As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may collect evidence 6.
Destroy all creatures. If evidence was collected, exile a card from an opponent's graveyard. Then search its owner's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with that name and exile them. That player shuffles, then draws a card for each card exiled from their hand this way.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Murders at Karlov Manor Promos
- Price
- $0.56
- EDHREC rank
- #10217
Deadly Cover-Up exiles an entire board and then lets you surgically remove every copy of a chosen card from the game — graveyard, hand, library included. Five mana for a sweeper is already competitive; the extraction clause on top makes this one of the most complete answers black has printed in years.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Deadly Cover-Up earns its slot in any black deck that wants a sweeper doubling as graveyard hate — the extraction rider answers combo pieces your opponents will try to recur, and exiling the board rather than destroying it blanks indestructible permanents entirely. In 1v1 formats like Modern and Pioneer, the five-mana cost is the ceiling: sweepers compete with Damnation and Toxic Deluge, so Deadly Cover-Up only makes the cut in decks that specifically need the exile clause or the extraction upside. Legacy and Vintage have faster clocks than five mana can match, so it stays on the sidelines there. Standard is where the card has seen genuine competitive play, since the power floor of a five-mana wrath is reasonable in a slower format and the extraction effect pulls real weight against recursive threats.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.56 bulk tier
At $0.56, Deadly Cover-Up sits firmly in bulk territory despite being a legitimate constructed and Commander staple. That price reflects supply more than demand — pick up copies now, because a card this functionally strong rarely stays this cheap once it rotates out of Standard print runs.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.