Global Ruin
Sorcery
Each player chooses from the lands they control a land of each basic land type, then sacrifices the rest.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Invasion
- Price
- $0.49
- EDHREC rank
- #21306
Global Ruin strips every player down to one land of each basic type, which in a five-color or greedy-mana deck means opponents lose most of their mana base while you keep exactly what you need. Five mana for a one-sided-in-practice mass land destruction effect is the deal — the cost is building your deck to survive the aftermath.
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 |
Commander is where Global Ruin actually does something — most four- and five-color piles lean on nonbasics, so a deck deliberately built around one of each basic type turns this into a near-one-sided reset at five mana. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but irrelevant; faster, more consistent land destruction exists, and the setup cost of running enough basics to survive it yourself is prohibitive in those formats. Oathbreaker follows the same logic as Commander at a smaller table, which makes the asymmetry even sharper if your signature spell or planeswalker already rewards a five-color basic package.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.49 bulk tier
Global Ruin sits at $0.49, firmly bulk rare territory. It's unlikely to spike — the effect is narrow and the demand ceiling is low — but at that price it's a near-free inclusion for any five-color build that wants the effect.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.