Descend upon the Sinful
Sorcery
Exile all creatures.
Delirium — Create a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying if there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Shadows over Innistrad
- Price
- $0.35
- EDHREC rank
- #11878
Descend upon the Sinful exiles the entire board — not destroys, exiles — and can leave you a 4/4 flying Angel if you had a delirium-ready graveyard when it resolved. Six mana is real, but exile-all is the premium answer to indestructible and persist creatures that cheaper wraths simply can't answer.
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 |
Commander is the clear home for Descend upon the Sinful — six mana is acceptable in a 40-life format, and exile-all is the cleanest answer to the indestructible gods, undying creatures, and recursive threats that dominate mid-to-late game pods. The delirium clause rewards the graveyard-synergy decks that populate the format, turning a wrath into a wrath-plus-threat for no extra cost. In Legacy and Vintage the card is legal but irrelevant — those formats kill on turn one or two, and a six-mana sorcery competes with Terminus and Council's Judgment in spots where speed is everything. Pioneer and Modern are similarly unkind; Supreme Verdict and Settle the Wreckage handle most threats cheaper and at instant speed, so the exile upside doesn't justify the mana.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.35 bulk tier
At $0.35, Descend upon the Sinful sits firmly in bulk rare territory — which makes it one of the most cost-efficient exile wraths available for Commander. That price is unlikely to climb meaningfully given multiple printings and the card's absence from competitive formats, so pick it up now and don't expect to flip it later.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.