Hour of Reckoning
Sorcery
Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for 
or one mana of that creature's color.)
Destroy all nontoken creatures.
- CMC
- 7
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Ravnica: City of Guilds
- Price
- $0.67
- EDHREC rank
- #994
Hour of Reckoning wipes the board of every nontoken creature while leaving your token army standing — the asymmetry is the whole point. Convoke makes it legitimately castable for zero or near-zero mana in a populated token deck, and Kasla, the Broken Halo runs it in over 72% of builds for exactly that reason.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Kasla, the Broken Halo
Kasla, the Broken Halo's token-generating engine means Hour of Reckoning costs next to nothing to cast while clearing every nontoken threat opponents control — a one-sided reset that leaves Kasla's board fully intact.
Neyali, Suns' Vanguard
Neyali, Suns' Vanguard floods the board with attacking tokens, which convoke Hour of Reckoning down to a trivial cost and then survive to swing the turn after the wipe.
Emmara, Soul of the Accord
Emmara, Soul of the Accord taps creatures to generate tokens, and Hour of Reckoning rewards that loop by destroying every nontoken blocker opponents control while every Emmara token lives.
Ghired, Conclave Exile
Ghired, Conclave Exile populates large token copies each combat, and Hour of Reckoning lets those tokens survive a full board reset that eliminates the nontoken creatures standing in the way of a lethal swing.
Soundwave, Sonic Spy
Soundwave, Sonic Spy builds a wide token board from artifacts and creatures, giving Hour of Reckoning both the convoke fodder to cast it cheaply and the surviving army to close the game afterward.
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 |
Hour of Reckoning is a Commander card through and through — the convoke reduction only matters when you're already holding a wide token board, a condition that's far more common in a 100-card singleton format built around a token commander than in any 60-card context. It's legal in Legacy, Vintage, and Modern, but sees no meaningful play there; four to six mana for a conditional wipe that leaves tokens alive is too slow and too narrow against the threats those formats present. In Commander, the convoke clause regularly drops the effective cost to two or three mana in the mid-game, which makes Hour of Reckoning one of the most efficient board wipes available to white token strategies.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.67 bulk tier
At $0.67, Hour of Reckoning sits firmly in bulk territory despite its 70%-plus inclusion rate in several popular token commanders. The price reflects wide availability across multiple printings, not low demand — it's a genuine staple at a throwaway cost.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.