Iron Verdict
Instant
Iron Verdict deals 5 damage to target tapped creature.
Foretell 
(During your turn, you may pay 
and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Kaldheim
- Price
- $0.09
- EDHREC rank
- #17783
Iron Verdict destroys a tapped creature at instant speed for five mana — conditional removal, but the condition is trivially met during combat or on your opponents' end steps. In foretell shells like Ranar the Ever-Watchful, you cast it for two mana on the turn you foretell it, which closes the efficiency gap entirely.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Ranar the Ever-Watchful
Ranar the Ever-Watchful triggers off foretelling cards, so Iron Verdict pulls double duty — foretelling it on turn two makes a 1/1 Spirit token and banks a two-mana removal spell for later, which is exactly the kind of incidental value Ranar decks are built to extract.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Iron Verdict is a budget role-player in foretell decks — the foretold cost of two mana is genuinely competitive removal in a format where Swords to Plowshares isn't always in your color identity. Outside of foretell synergies, five mana for a conditional destroy is too slow to run in most lists. In Pauper, the foretell discount makes it a real consideration in white tempo strategies where hitting tapped attackers at two mana is a clean rate. Modern and Legacy have access to Fatal Push, Prismatic Ending, and Path to Exile, so Iron Verdict doesn't crack those formats except in dedicated foretell brews.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.09 bulk tier
At $0.09, Iron Verdict is deep bulk — grab a playset out of a commons box without thinking twice. Bulk white removal with narrow synergy requirements rarely climbs in price, so don't expect this to move.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.