Doomskar
Sorcery
Destroy all creatures.
Foretell 
(During your turn, you may pay 
and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Kaldheim
- Price
- $0.74
- EDHREC rank
- #4509
Doomskar wipes the board for three mana if you foretell it the turn before — that's Wrath of God efficiency with built-in planning. Ranar the Ever-Watchful turns the foretell trigger itself into a 1/1 Spirit token, so the setup cost becomes upside.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Ranar the Ever-Watchful
Ranar the Ever-Watchful creates a Spirit token the moment you foretell Doomskar, meaning the two-mana setup step replaces itself before the wipe even resolves. At 76% inclusion across 3,400+ decks, Doomskar is close to a staple here.
Kellan, the Kid
Kellan, the Kid plays a tempo game where clearing the board on turn three via foretell lets Kellan keep swinging into an empty field. Doomskar's predictable two-step cost fits cleanly into Kellan's planning window.
Avacyn, Angel of Hope
Avacyn, Angel of Hope makes your permanents indestructible, so Doomskar becomes completely one-sided — opponents lose everything while your board survives intact. It's the cleanest asymmetric wipe available in mono-white.
Gwen Stacy
Gwen Stacy leans on her own creatures surviving combat, and Doomskar at three mana clears opposing blockers efficiently enough to matter in that aggressive shell. The foretell cost also lets Gwen's pilot telegraph the reset and play around it themselves.
Zurgo Helmsmasher
Zurgo Helmsmasher is indestructible on your turn, so Doomskar on an opponent's end step or at sorcery speed wipes their board while Zurgo walks away unscathed. The foretell discount makes it easier to hold up mana for other threats while the setup piece sits in exile.
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, Doomskar is a legitimate Wrath of God variant — the foretell cost makes it three mana on the turn it resolves, which is fast enough to matter, and telegraphing it the turn before is rarely punished in a four-player game where everyone else is watching each other. In Modern and Pioneer, Doomskar sees fringe play in slower white control shells where the two-turn sequencing is acceptable, but it competes with cheaper or more efficient sweepers and rarely earns a slot over them. Legacy and Vintage have no interest — the formats are too fast for a sorcery-speed wipe with a setup cost. Oathbreaker is the other format where Doomskar is genuinely playable for the same reasons as Commander: games are slower, foretell is easy to execute, and three-mana wraths are strong.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.74 bulk tier
At $0.74, Doomskar sits in bulk territory despite being a functional three-mana wipe in the right shell. It's a safe pickup for any white Commander deck that wants board clears — the price has nowhere meaningful to fall from here.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.