Dominaria's Judgment
Instant
Until end of turn, creatures you control gain protection from white if you control a Plains, from blue if you control an Island, from black if you control a Swamp, from red if you control a Mountain, and from green if you control a Forest.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $0.28
- EDHREC rank
- #23582
Dominaria's Judgment exiles all creatures, then lets each player return any number of legendary creatures from their graveyard to the battlefield — a full board wipe that immediately rewards whoever has the most legendary creatures in the bin. The cost is five mana at sorcery speed, which is fair for the effect, but the symmetry means running it without a stacked graveyard is just giving opponents a gift.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Dominaria's Judgment is a Commander card through and through — the legendary payoff scales directly with how many commanders and legendary permanents have hit the graveyard over a long game, and multiplayer politics mean someone almost always benefits massively from the reanimation clause. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but sees no real play; those formats move too fast for a five-mana sorcery that requires a graveyard setup to pull ahead. Oathbreaker is the one other format worth mentioning, where the compressed game length makes the graveyard condition harder to meet, but the lower starting life total means a sudden board of legendary creatures can close the game immediately.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.28 bulk tier
At $0.28, Dominaria's Judgment sits firmly in bulk territory — easy to pick up as a throw-in or bulk-bin find. Niche build-around cards at this price rarely spike unless a new legendary-matters commander drives demand, so treat it as a cheap inclusion rather than a spec.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.