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Glorious End

Instant

End the turn. (Exile all spells and abilities from the stack, including this card. The player whose turn it is discards down to their maximum hand size. Damage wears off, and "this turn" and "until end of turn" effects end.)
At the beginning of your next end step, you lose the game.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
mythic
Set
Amonkhet
Price
$0.81
EDHREC rank
#10415
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Glorious End card art
Glorious End ends the turn immediately — stopping combat, countering spells on the stack, and resetting every phase — but the delayed triggered ability will kill you at the start of your next upkeep unless you find a way to dodge it. In the right shell, specifically alongside Obeka, Brute Chronologist or in an Kess, Dissident Mage graveyard loop, that downside evaporates entirely and the card becomes a one-sided Time Stop for three mana.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Obeka, Brute Chronologist

Obeka, Brute Chronologist

64.2% of decks · synergy 0.63

Obeka, Brute Chronologist is the defining home for Glorious End because tapping Obeka in response to the delayed trigger ends the turn before it resolves, meaning you keep the effect and skip the death sentence — run it as a repeatable turn-ender with essentially no drawback.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Glorious End is legal across Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it sees virtually no competitive play outside Commander. In Modern and Pioneer, a three-mana instant that kills you on your upkeep has no shell capable of consistently negating the downside, so it sits as a novelty. Legacy and Vintage move too fast for a three-mana reactive spell to earn a slot when cheaper interaction exists. Commander is where Glorious End actually functions as a card — the multiplayer environment, longer games, and commander-based combo engines create the exact conditions its design demands.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.81 bulk tier

At $0.81, Glorious End is firmly bulk — a niche card with a narrow combo dependency that keeps demand low. It holds that price floor comfortably given its Commander-specific ceiling, so there's no urgency to pick it up at a premium.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.