Evaporate
Sorcery
Evaporate deals 1 damage to each white and/or blue creature.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Homelands
- Price
- $0.15
- EDHREC rank
- #30418
Evaporate deals 1 damage to each creature your opponents control that's white or blue — a surgical sweeper that punishes creature-heavy white and blue decks without touching your own board. Three mana for that effect is fair, and in a meta full of tokens and go-wide strategies, it overperforms its price tag.
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 |
Evaporate is a Commander card through and through — the format's multiplayer nature means white and blue creatures are almost always on the table, and hitting multiple opponents' boards simultaneously multiplies the damage-per-mana ratio dramatically. In Legacy and Vintage, it's technically legal but irrelevant; one-mana interaction sets the bar too high for a three-mana sorcery that deals 1 damage. Oathbreaker shares enough of Commander's multiplayer dynamics to make Evaporate occasionally playable, particularly against white weenie or blue artifact-creature shells.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.15 bulk tier
At $0.15, Evaporate is deep bulk — you're paying almost nothing for a situational sweeper. It holds that price floor without any upward pressure, so grab it from a bulk bin rather than paying shipping for a single copy.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.