Eliminate the Impossible
Instant
Investigate. Creatures your opponents control get -2/-0 until end of turn. If any of them are suspected, they're no longer suspected. (To investigate, create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Murders at Karlov Manor
- Price
- $0.10
- EDHREC rank
- #22006
Eliminate the Impossible exiles up to two nonland permanents or spells with total mana value 6 or less — premium flexibility at four mana that answers a threat on the stack or a resolved permanent without requiring you to choose the mode in advance. The catch is the combined mana value ceiling, which means it can't cleanly answer a single large threat like an eight-drop; at its best when two mid-sized problems need solving in one card.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Eliminate the Impossible earns a slot as a flexible answer in colors that can cast it — hitting a stax piece on the battlefield while exiling a commander on the stack in the same turn is a real upside no single-target removal spell can replicate. The combined mana value cap keeps it out of range for late-game haymakers, so decks leaning on it need supplemental answers for high-CMC threats. In 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer, two-for-one exile at sorcery speed is too slow and too conditional to compete with cheaper, more targeted options. Legacy and Vintage have even less patience for four-mana sorceries. Eliminate the Impossible is a Commander card through and through, and a reasonable one at that.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.10 bulk tier
At $0.10, Eliminate the Impossible is deep bulk — a no-hesitation pickup if the effect fits your deck. Bulk rare prices rarely climb unless a card sees competitive adoption, which this one won't, so buy it for the effect and don't expect anything from it financially.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.