Radiant's Judgment
Instant
Destroy target creature with power 4 or greater.
Cycling 
(, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Jumpstart 2022
- Price
- $0.06
- EDHREC rank
- #15323
Radiant's Judgment exiles any creature or planeswalker with power greater than the number of cards in your hand — a surgical hit that costs nothing if Gavi, Nest Warden has kept your hand full. At four mana it's on the expensive side for spot removal, but the exile clause and no-mana floor when you're card-rich make it a legitimate role-player in draw-heavy white builds.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Gavi, Nest Warden
Gavi, Nest Warden floods your hand every turn through the cycling engine, which regularly pushes your hand size high enough to make Radiant's Judgment a free spell — zero mana to exile a threat is the kind of efficiency white removal rarely gets.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Radiant's Judgment is a Commander card through and through — the conditional cost reduction only matters when you have a commander actively keeping your hand stocked, and that context just doesn't exist in most other formats. In Pauper and Legacy it's technically legal, but conditional exile at four mana loses to cheaper, unconditional options at every point on the curve. Commander is the only format where the free-cast mode is consistently reachable, and even there it earns a slot only in decks built around sustained card advantage.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.06 bulk tier
At $0.06, Radiant's Judgment is deep bulk — pick it up as a throw-in or grab a copy from any commons box without a second thought. Bulk commons with narrow synergy conditions don't climb in price, so don't expect this to move.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.