Regna's Sanction
Sorcery
For each player, choose friend or foe. Each friend puts a +1/+1 counter on each creature they control. Each foe chooses one untapped creature they control, then taps the rest.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Battlebond
- Price
- $0.40
- EDHREC rank
- #14423
Regna's Sanction puts a goad or a +1/+1 counter on every creature your opponents control — at instant speed, for four mana — which means it either forces a board of attackers into the red zone or stocks up your own creatures if you're running something like Kros, Defense Contractor. The cost is steep enough that you won't cast this early, but the political and combat manipulation it generates in one card is genuinely hard to replicate.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Kros, Defense Contractor
Kros, Defense Contractor turns every counter placed on an opponent's creature into a goad trigger, so Regna's Sanction effectively goads every creature on the board twice over — once from the Sanction itself and once from Kros's ability firing for each counter placed.
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 |
Regna's Sanction is a Commander card through and through — the political dimensions of mass goad only matter when there are three or more players negotiating combat, and the counter-placement synergies it enables require specific commanders like Kros, Defense Contractor to go beyond a simple tempo play. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but competes in formats where four-mana instants need to win games outright, and Regna's Sanction does not do that. Oathbreaker is the one other format where its political angle has some relevance, though the smaller starting hand size and faster pace reduce the number of turns you'll have to leverage the chaos it creates.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.40 bulk tier
At $0.40, Regna's Sanction sits firmly in bulk territory, which makes it a zero-risk pickup if you're building around Kros, Defense Contractor or any goad-adjacent strategy. Bulk rares with narrow commander applications tend to stay cheap indefinitely, so there's no urgency — grab it when you order other singles.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.