Fissure
Instant
Destroy target creature or land. It can't be regenerated.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Renaissance
- Price
- $1.05
- EDHREC rank
- #23105
Fissure destroys any one land or creature unconditionally — no targeting restriction, no saving throw — for five mana at sorcery speed. That ceiling is real, but five mana for a single permanent removed is a rate Commander has long since moved past.
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 |
In Commander, Fissure sits at the bottom of the removal pile — five mana at sorcery speed competes against three-mana spells that do the same job and leave you with mana to interact on the same turn. Pauper is the one format where Fissure has any legitimate claim: the card pool is shallow enough that unconditional land or creature destruction without color restriction carries real weight. Legacy and Vintage are legal but irrelevant — nothing in those formats would run Fissure when cheaper, faster options exist. Oathbreaker follows the same logic as Commander: the lower starting life total rewards efficiency, and five mana is rarely where you want to spend your turn.
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Price Context
Current price
$1.05 cheap tier
At $1.05, Fissure sits in the cheap tier — affordable, but the price reflects collector curiosity more than gameplay demand. Don't expect the value to move; there's no competitive home driving it upward.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.