Eye of Doom
Artifact
When this artifact enters, each player chooses a nonland permanent and puts a doom counter on it.
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, Sacrifice this artifact: Destroy each permanent with a doom counter on it.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $0.22
- EDHREC rank
- #22186
Eye of Doom enters and forces every player to doom a permanent — then you crack it to destroy everything domed, wiping the board of four targets for four mana. The catch is that you're destroying your own permanent too, so it belongs in decks that either sacrifice fodder willingly or run enough political capital to doom something expendable.
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 |
Eye of Doom is a Commander card through and through — its political doom-negotiation mechanic is irrelevant in 1v1 formats where Vintage and Legacy demand immediate, unconditional interaction. In those formats, a four-mana artifact that doesn't affect the board until an additional activation is simply too slow to see play. Commander is where Eye of Doom operates as intended: four players each doom a permanent, and you hold removal leverage over the whole table from the moment it lands. Oathbreaker is legal but similarly 1v1, so the political angle collapses there the same way it does in Legacy.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.22 bulk tier
At $0.22, Eye of Doom is deep bulk — you're not spending real money here. It's a casual Commander staple that has never spiked and is unlikely to; the card does too little in competitive formats to attract speculator attention.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.