Final Judgment
Sorcery
Exile all creatures.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Betrayers of Kamigawa
- Price
- $1.30
- EDHREC rank
- #8753
Final Judgment exiles the entire board — no graveyard recursion, no death triggers, no comebacks from Indestructible. Six mana is the real cost, and in Commander that's the difference between catching a threat and watching it resolve first.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Y'shtola, Night's Blessed
Y'shtola, Night's Blessed rewards casting high-cost spells, so Final Judgment pulling double duty as both a reset button and a premium spell trigger is exactly what that engine wants.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Final Judgment fills a specific hole: it answers Indestructible threats and shuts down recursion-heavy strategies in a single cast. The six-mana ask is steep compared to Wrath of God or Damnation, so you run it when the exile clause is load-bearing, not as a generic slot-four sweeper. In Legacy and Vintage it's essentially unplayed — at six mana those formats have moved on entirely, and mass exile at that cost competes against nothing worth playing around. Oathbreaker gives it a narrower window as a meta-call against commanders that rebuy from the graveyard.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$1.30 cheap tier
At $1.30, Final Judgment sits in the budget-staple tier — cheap enough that the exile clause costs you nothing financially over a vanilla sweeper. That price is stable; niche six-mana board wipes don't spike, but they don't crater either.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.