Impending Disaster
Enchantment
At the beginning of your upkeep, if there are seven or more lands on the battlefield, sacrifice this enchantment and destroy all lands.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Urza's Legacy
- Price
- $1.12
- EDHREC rank
- #12022
Impending Disaster threatens to wipe the board of every land the moment anyone controls seven or more — and it costs two mana to deploy. In land-punishment shells like Zo-Zu the Punisher, that threat alone warps how opponents play, often forcing them to hold back land drops entirely.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Zo-Zu the Punisher
Zo-Zu the Punisher already taxes every land drop, and Impending Disaster adds a hard ceiling — opponents who push through the pain to ramp suddenly risk losing everything. The two cards together make it nearly impossible for opponents to safely develop their mana.
Svella, Ice Shaper
Svella, Ice Shaper generates Icy Manaliths as mana substitutes, so wiping lands via Impending Disaster hurts opponents far more than it hurts a Svella pilot sitting on snow-produced tokens. It's a reliable asymmetry when Svella has had even a few turns to set up.
Klothys, God of Destiny
Klothys, God of Destiny fuels herself through the graveyard rather than land-based acceleration, making Impending Disaster a one-sided threat in her shell. Opponents playing conventional land-ramp strategies get hit hardest while Klothys keeps ticking.
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 |
Impending Disaster is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker — but it's a Commander card through and through. In Legacy and Vintage, the formats are too fast and too full of non-land mana sources for a seven-land trigger to matter before the game is already decided. Commander is where it lives: games go long, players build up eight or nine lands naturally, and a two-mana enchantment that keeps everyone paranoid about their land count is exactly the kind of low-investment disruption that earns its slot in land-punishment or stax builds.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$1.12 cheap tier
At $1.12, Impending Disaster sits firmly in the cheap tier — a low-risk pickup for any red stax or land-punishment list. It's a niche card with a dedicated home, so don't expect the price to move much in either direction.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Zo-Zu the Punisher
- Svella, Ice Shaper
- Klothys, God of Destiny
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.