Echoing Ruin
Sorcery
Destroy target artifact and all other artifacts with the same name as that artifact.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Darksteel
- Price
- $0.23
- EDHREC rank
- #16765
Echoing Ruin hits every copy of the target artifact on the battlefield — in Commander, that's a mass Naturalize the moment your opponent leans on a Sol Ring or an artifact land. Two mana at sorcery speed is the only real cost, and in Kibo, Uktabi Prince builds stacked with Banana tokens, that cost barely registers.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Kibo, Uktabi Prince
Kibo, Uktabi Prince generates Banana artifact tokens for every player, so Echoing Ruin routinely wipes the table of three or four copies at once — efficient removal that doubles as a political weapon in a deck built to flood the board with shared artifacts.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Echoing Ruin is a Pauper staple where artifacts like Prophetic Prism and Chromatic Star appear in multiples, and hitting all copies at once regularly amounts to two-for-one or better value for two mana. In Legacy and Vintage the card is legal but too narrow and slow to compete with Shenanigans or Smash to Smithereens. Commander is where Echoing Ruin genuinely earns a slot — once a Sol Ring or Smothering Tithe hits the table, every opponent is likely running a copy, and a single cast can shatter all of them simultaneously. Outside of dedicated artifact-token strategies like Kibo decks, it's a conditional include: strong against artifact staples, dead against singleton-focused opponents running one-of utility pieces.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.23 bulk tier
At $0.23, Echoing Ruin sits firmly in bulk territory — a slot you fill without thinking twice on budget builds. Bulk commons rarely move on price, so this is a stable pickup whenever you need it.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.