Game Over
Sorcery
This spell costs 
less to cast if a player's life total is less than or equal to half their starting life total.
Destroy all creatures.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Eternal
- Price
- $0.43
- EDHREC rank
- #11443
Game Over locks every opponent out of searching their library for the rest of the game — graveyards, tutors, fetchlands, all of it shut down the moment this resolves. At five mana in Dimir with no other meaningful cost, Leonardo, the Balance // Michelangelo, the Heart decks that can cast it for free or cheat it in make it a devastating pillar rather than a sideboard curiosity.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Leonardo, the Balance // Michelangelo, the Heart
Leonardo, the Balance // Michelangelo, the Heart can cast Game Over without paying its mana cost, turning a five-mana lock piece into a free haymaker that opponents can't tutor an answer for once it lands.
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 |
In Commander, Game Over is the format's most efficient permanent-based search lock — five mana to permanently shut off every fetchland, tutor, and Demonic Consultation at a four-player table is an asymmetric tax that compounds instantly. Legacy and Vintage can run it, but those formats answer enchantments cleanly and play through the lock faster than a single opponent can; the one-versus-one dynamic also strips away the multiplied value that makes it so punishing in pods. Oathbreaker gets the same multiplayer upside as Commander, and decks that care about graveyard denial or combo disruption will find real use for it there.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.43 bulk tier
At $0.43, Game Over sits firmly in bulk territory despite being one of the most oppressive lock pieces printed for Commander. That price is almost certainly a function of supply rather than demand cooling off — pick up copies now if you're building any Dimir control or stax shell.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Leonardo, the Balance // Michelangelo, the Heart
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.