Everything Comes to Dust
Sorcery
Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for 
or one mana of that creature's color.)
Exile all creatures except those that share a creature type with a creature that convoked this spell, all artifacts, and all enchantments.
- CMC
- 10
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Doctor Who
- Price
- $5.97
- EDHREC rank
- #4399
Everything Comes to Dust wipes all permanents of a chosen type — artifacts, enchantments, planeswalkers, or lands — at sorcery speed for five mana, which is a massive swing at the right moment. The Tenth Doctor // Rose Tyler decks run it at a 40% clip because exiling a permanent type and then playing it from exile chains directly into the Companion mechanic's adventure triggers.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
The Tenth Doctor // Rose Tyler
The Tenth Doctor // Rose Tyler commands the highest inclusion rate because Everything Comes to Dust exiles a permanent type rather than destroying it, and playing those cards from exile triggers the Doctor's 'played from anywhere other than your hand' ability — potentially drawing a card for each permanent your opponents lose. With 5,465 decks running the pairing, it's the defining home for this card.
Arahbo, the First Fang
Arahbo, the First Fang cares about life loss and drain effects, and Everything Comes to Dust contributes by clearing entire permanent types — particularly enchantments or artifacts that protect opponents from combat damage — to make Arahbo's lifelink-and-drain engine harder to disrupt.
Kasla, the Broken Halo
Kasla, the Broken Halo rewards players for casting spells with multiple card types, and Everything Comes to Dust as a sorcery with broad board impact fits cleanly into that spell-quality axis while handling the enchantments and artifacts that would otherwise slow down Kasla's go-wide strategy.
G'raha Tia, Scion Reborn
G'raha Tia, Scion Reborn recurs cards from exile, so Everything Comes to Dust pulling a permanent type into exile rather than the graveyard can set up future recursion targets — and clearing a type like artifacts or enchantments buys the time needed to assemble G'raha's longer game.
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 |
Everything Comes to Dust is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but its real home is Commander — a format where opponents routinely develop threatening artifact or enchantment boards that a single targeted removal spell can't clean up. In Legacy and Vintage, a five-mana sorcery that requires setup is too slow against combo and tempo decks that win before you untap. Commander is the only format where wiping all artifacts or all lands at the right moment represents a game-deciding swing rather than a tempo loss.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
Bane of Progress hits artifacts and enchantments simultaneously as a creature rather than exiling by type, and at under $1 it's the closest budget analog — you lose the flexibility of choosing a type and the exile clause, but you gain a body. Farewell is another option near $3 that lets you exile artifacts, enchantments, creatures, and graveyards in any combination, though it lacks the land-wipe mode that gives Everything Comes to Dust its ceiling.
Price Context
Current price
$5.97 mid tier
At $5.97, Everything Comes to Dust sits in the mid tier — expensive enough to feel like a deliberate inclusion, cheap enough to not dominate a budget. Given its near-40% inclusion rate in The Tenth Doctor // Rose Tyler decks and strong synergy scores across several other commanders, the price reflects genuine demand rather than hype.
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Sources
Mentioned
- The Tenth Doctor // Rose Tyler
- Arahbo, the First Fang
- Kasla, the Broken Halo
- G'raha Tia, Scion Reborn
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.