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Merciless Eviction

Sorcery

Choose one —
• Exile all artifacts.
• Exile all creatures.
• Exile all enchantments.
• Exile all planeswalkers.

CMC
6
Mana cost
{4}{W}{B}
Color identity
BW
Rarity
rare
Set
Gatecrash
Price
$0.62
EDHREC rank
#2852
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Merciless Eviction card art
Merciless Eviction exiles an entire permanent type — creatures, artifacts, enchantments, or planeswalkers — with no graveyard triggers, no Nine Lives resets, no recursion safety net. Six mana is the real cost, and at that price you need a clear target in mind, but nothing else at this slot cleans up a problem type this completely.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Ixhel, Scion of Atraxa

Ixhel, Scion of Atraxa

26.0% of decks · synergy 0.24

Ixhel, Scion of Atraxa runs a wide Orzhov-green shell that wants unconditional answers to enchantment and artifact hate pieces that otherwise stall the poison clock. Merciless Eviction covers exactly those problem types while also doubling as a creature reset when the board has outpaced Ixhel's defenses.

02
Athreos, Shroud-Veiled

Athreos, Shroud-Veiled

16.1% of decks · synergy 0.12

Athreos, Shroud-Veiled puts coin counters on creatures so they return to hand when they die — a loop that only works if creatures actually die rather than vanish. Merciless Eviction handles opposing indestructible threats and enchantments that would otherwise lock the loop down, keeping Athreos's engine running clean.

03
Kambal, Consul of Allocation

Kambal, Consul of Allocation

14.0% of decks · synergy 0.10

Kambal, Consul of Allocation bleeds opponents on noncreature spells, so the deck wants to extend the game long enough for that damage to accumulate. Merciless Eviction is the catch-all reset that buys those extra turns when a player's artifact or creature board threatens to end things before Kambal can finish the job.

04
Athreos, God of Passage

Athreos, God of Passage

10.7% of decks · synergy 0.06

Athreos, God of Passage is an indestructible commander that laughs at creature wraths — which is exactly why Merciless Eviction's exile mode is so at home here. Wiping the board while Athreos survives (as a god immune to the effect) puts the pilot immediately ahead on the rebuild.

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

Merciless Eviction is where it belongs in Commander: a six-mana answer to any permanent type, priced for a 40-life multiplayer game where a single spell needs to solve a whole category of threat. In Modern and Pioneer it's simply too slow — at six mana you've already lost to most proactive strategies, and the formats rarely produce a board state where exiling a permanent type at sorcery speed at that cost is worth a card slot. Legacy and Vintage are similarly hostile; cheaper, more flexible interaction dominates both formats. Oathbreaker functions close enough to Commander that the card sees occasional play there for the same reasons. The place to run Merciless Eviction is Commander, full stop.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.62 bulk tier

At $0.62, Merciless Eviction sits firmly in bulk territory despite being one of the most versatile board wipes in the format. That price is unlikely to move much given the number of printings, which makes it one of the cleanest pickups in Commander — high-impact, low-cost, no hesitation.

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