Evincar's Justice
Sorcery
Buyback 
(You may pay an additional as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)
Evincar's Justice deals 2 damage to each creature and each player.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Commander 2011
- Price
- $0.30
- EDHREC rank
- #23474
Evincar's Justice hits every creature with -2/-2 for four mana — or two mana if you pay 2 life instead, which is the only reason to run it. The buyback clause is the whole card: loop it every turn in a life-gain shell and you lock out token swarms and x/1 creatures permanently.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Evincar's Justice is a Commander card almost exclusively — the buyback loop is too slow for Legacy or Vintage, and Pauper is the one competitive format where it occasionally sees fringe play in black control shells that want repeatable sweeper effects at common rarity. In Commander, it earns a slot in decks that generate excess life (Oloro, Ageless Ascetic; Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim; K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth) where paying 2 life per cast is trivial and the repeated -2/-2 clears utility creatures and tokens indefinitely. Outside those specific life-gain engines, four mana for a sorcery-speed -2/-2 board effect without buyback is too slow to justify the slot.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.30 bulk tier
At $0.30, Evincar's Justice is bulk — easy to pick up as a throw-in or from a commons box without a second thought. Demand is narrow enough that the price is unlikely to move regardless of any single deck's success.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.