Fade from History
Sorcery
Each player who controls an artifact or enchantment creates a 2/2 green Bear creature token. Then destroy all artifacts and enchantments.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Magic Online Promos
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #4592
Fade from History wipes every artifact and enchantment on the board and hands each opponent a 2/2 Bear token as consolation — mass removal at sorcery speed for three mana is an absurd rate. The consolation tokens look like a downside until you're running Ygra, Eater of All, at which point every Bear your opponents receive enters as a Food instead.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Ygra, Eater of All
Ygra, Eater of All converts every creature that enters the battlefield into a Food token, so the Bear tokens Fade from History hands to opponents never actually arrive as threats — they become artifacts you can crack for life, turning the card's built-in 'downside' into additional resources.
Ayula, Queen Among Bears
Fade from History floods the board with Bears across all players, and Ayula, Queen Among Bears triggers on every Bear entering — including the ones your opponents receive — letting you distribute +1/+1 counters or force fights off a single sweeper.
Duskana, the Rage Mother
Duskana, the Rage Mother gives all your 2/2 Bears base power and toughness 5/5 until end of turn, so Fade from History isn't just removing threats — it's populating your own board with suddenly oversized attackers.
Kudo, King Among Bears
Kudo, King Among Bears rewards you whenever a Bear deals damage, so the wave of 2/2 tokens Fade from History generates across all players translates directly into combat triggers and incremental advantage every subsequent turn.
Ruxa, Patient Professor
Ruxa, Patient Professor cares about creatures with no abilities, and the vanilla 2/2 Bears Fade from History creates are exactly the tokens Ruxa wants to buff and swing with en masse.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Fade from History is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but Commander is where it actually belongs. Three-mana mass removal that hits both artifacts and enchantments is unheard of — the closest comparisons cost five or six mana — and Commander tables are littered with both permanent types. In competitive non-rotating formats like Modern and Legacy, the Bear tokens handed to opponents are a genuine liability against aggressive or token-doubling strategies, and dedicated artifact or enchantment hate rarely needs to be this wide, so it sees essentially no play there. In Oathbreaker it's a fine include if your signature spell or planeswalker cares about tokens, but the power ceiling is lower without 99-card redundancy. This is a Commander card through and through.
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Price Context
Current price
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Pricing data for Fade from History isn't available at the moment — check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for a current figure. Given its impact in Bear-tribal and artifact-enchantment-hate strategies, it's worth picking up sooner rather than later if the price is still low.
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Mentioned
- Ygra, Eater of All
- Ayula, Queen Among Bears
- Duskana, the Rage Mother
- Kudo, King Among Bears
- Ruxa, Patient Professor
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.