Plague Wind
Sorcery
Destroy all creatures you don't control. They can't be regenerated.
- CMC
- 9
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Ninth Edition
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #6543
Plague Wind wipes every creature your opponents control and leaves yours standing — a clean sweep that ends games on the spot. Nine mana is the real conversation, and outside of cost-reduction or cheat-into-play engines like Magar of the Magic Strings, that's where it stays: a bomb with a steep toll.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Magar of the Magic Strings
Magar of the Magic Strings is the reason Plague Wind shows up in roughly a third of all decks — Magar can copy Plague Wind's text onto a creature token and then recur it for three mana, turning the nine-mana board wipe into a repeatable threat.
Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign
Plague Wind has an odd mana value of nine, which means Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign can cast it for free off a successful attack trigger — that's the whole reason it earns a slot here.
Witherbloom, the Balancer
Witherbloom, the Balancer scales on life totals and board control, and Plague Wind delivers the clean slate that lets Witherbloom's effects close out a game unopposed.
Hidetsugu and Kairi
When Hidetsugu and Kairi dies, it lets you put the top card of your library into play for free if it's a sorcery — a Plague Wind sitting on top wipes the table without ever being cast.
The Infamous Cruelclaw
The Infamous Cruelclaw rewards running high-impact, high-cost spells that punish opponents hard, and Plague Wind is the ceiling on one-sided board wipes it can threaten to recur or cheat out.
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 |
Commander is the only format where Plague Wind earns serious consideration — singleton, long games, and political pile-ups of creatures are exactly the conditions that justify nine mana for a one-sided wipe. Legacy and Vintage are legal but irrelevant; no competitive deck in either format is casting nine-mana sorceries fairly, and there are faster, cheaper answers to boards in both. Plague Wind is also legal in Oathbreaker, where its ceiling is the same as in Commander but the faster pace of the format makes the nine-mana ask even harder to clear without dedicated acceleration.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.