Martyr's Cry
Sorcery
Exile all white creatures. For each creature exiled this way, its controller draws a card.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Masters Edition IV
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #28132
Martyr's Cry exiles all white creatures on the battlefield and replaces each one its controller had with a card draw — a mass removal spell that punishes token-heavy white decks while rewarding the player who built around creature sacrifice or flicker loops. The cost is steep in the wrong shell: run it outside a dedicated engine and you're just exiling your own board for nothing.
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 |
In Commander, Martyr's Cry occupies a narrow but real niche — white decks that generate disposable creature tokens and want to convert a board wipe into a draw engine will find it legitimately useful, especially in a format where drawing cards in white is structurally difficult. Legacy and Vintage both permit it, but dedicated white-weenie and Death and Taxes strategies rarely want to exile their own creatures for card parity when cheaper, more flexible removal exists. Martyr's Cry is legal in Oathbreaker as well, where its power scales with how white-creature-dense the table is. Across every format it's legal in, the card rewards a specific build condition rather than functioning as a generically good spell.
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Pricing data for Martyr's Cry isn't currently available, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the latest figures before buying. Given its narrow application and old-card scarcity profile, expect price to reflect collector demand as much as competitive play.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.