Depopulate
Sorcery
Each player who controls a multicolored creature draws a card. Then destroy all creatures.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Streets of New Capenna
- Price
- $0.21
- EDHREC rank
- #9814
Depopulate wipes the board of creatures and planeswalkers for four mana — competitive rate for a sweeper that hits two permanent types at once. Zurgo Helmsmasher laughs through it untouched, which is the clearest reason to run this over a generic Wrath of God variant.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Zurgo Helmsmasher
Zurgo Helmsmasher is indestructible on your turn, so Depopulate clears every blocker and opposing threat while leaving your commander completely unaffected — exactly the kind of asymmetric sweeper the deck wants.
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 |
In Commander, Depopulate earns its slot by doubling as creature and planeswalker removal on a single card, which is rare at four mana — most sweepers in this range ignore walkers entirely. Competitive and casual Commander tables both run enough planeswalkers that the extra clause produces real value rather than dead text. In Modern and Pioneer, Depopulate competes against Supreme Verdict and Sunfall, where the no-regeneration clause and exile mode on Sunfall make Depopulate a distant third; it rarely makes those 75s. Legacy and Vintage have no interest — faster win conditions make a four-mana sorcery-speed sweeper irrelevant.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.21 bulk tier
At $0.21, Depopulate sits firmly in bulk territory — buy a playset without thinking twice. Bulk sweepers rarely spike unless a format shift makes them suddenly tournament-relevant, and nothing on the horizon suggests that here.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.