Farewell
Sorcery
Choose one or more —
• Exile all artifacts.
• Exile all creatures.
• Exile all enchantments.
• Exile all graveyards.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Modern Horizons 3 Commander
- Price
- $6.47
- EDHREC rank
- #155
Farewell is the most flexible sweeper in Commander — choose any combination of artifacts, enchantments, graveyards, and creatures, and exile all of them, bypassing indestructible and recursion alike. Six mana is steep, but the ability to surgically strip a Smothering Tithe and a graveyard engine in the same spell while leaving your creatures untouched is worth every mana.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
The Tenth Doctor // Rose Tyler
The Tenth Doctor // Rose Tyler runs Farewell in over 73% of builds because its 'Companions' subtype matters — exiling opponents' boards and graveyards resets the game state while The Tenth Doctor's historic triggers keep replaying from the command zone.
Tidus, Yuna's Guardian
Tidus, Yuna's Guardian wants Farewell as a way to clear enchantments and artifacts that tax or lock down combat, letting Tidus rebuild aggression on an empty or near-empty board.
Morska, Undersea Sleuth
Morska, Undersea Sleuth leans on Farewell to exile graveyards and enchantments in one shot, protecting its clue and investigation synergies from recursion-heavy opponents while leaving Morska's own engine intact.
Satya, Aetherflux Genius
Satya, Aetherflux Genius uses Farewell to exile tokens and artifact boards — including its own token copies after extracting their ETB value — before pivoting to a clean rebuild.
Ketramose, the New Dawn
Ketramose, the New Dawn reaches for Farewell because exiling enchantments and graveyards simultaneously shuts down the enchantress and self-mill strategies that race it fastest.
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 |
Commander is where Farewell earns its slot: 100-card singleton tables routinely develop multiple permanent types worth destroying simultaneously, and the exile clause neuters the graveyard recursion that makes conventional sweepers feel like speed bumps. In Modern and Pioneer, six mana is prohibitively slow for the formats' aggressive timelines, and Farewell sees essentially no competitive play there. Legacy and Vintage have access to it but have faster, more targeted answers and rarely need a sweeper this expensive. Oathbreaker is a reasonable home for the same reasons as Commander — planeswalker-centric games often stack artifacts and enchantments, and Farewell clears them cleanly.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
Austere Command does about 80% of what Farewell does at the same mana cost and is available for under $2 — it handles artifacts, enchantments, and creatures in two-category combinations, but it destroys rather than exiles, so recursive threats come back. Winds of Abandon and Cleansing Nova each handle one axis cleanly and cost less than a dollar, but you lose the flexibility that makes Farewell worth running; if your meta is light on graveyards and you just need a creature sweeper, Cleansing Nova is the honest budget call.
Price Context
Current price
$6.47 mid tier
At $6.47, Farewell sits in the mid tier — meaningful money, but justified for a card that appears across a wide range of Commander archetypes and has no direct functional reprint at a lower price point. It's a stable pickup: broad utility and consistent demand mean the price isn't likely to crater, though the Coach doesn't predict prices — buy it when you need it.
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Sources
Mentioned
- The Tenth Doctor // Rose Tyler
- Tidus, Yuna's Guardian
- Morska, Undersea Sleuth
- Satya, Aetherflux Genius
- Ketramose, the New Dawn
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.