Reign of Terror
Sorcery
Destroy all green creatures or all white creatures. They can't be regenerated. You lose 2 life for each creature that died this way.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Mirage
- Price
- $0.21
- EDHREC rank
- #29914
Reign of Terror wipes the board of non-Zombie, non-Human creatures for four mana — a conditional Wrath of God that costs one less and hits most tables harder than it misses. The condition is a real cost in creature-light metas, but in any deck that already wants those tribal exemptions, this is a strict upgrade over vanilla sweepers at the same slot.
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 |
Commander is where Reign of Terror earns its slot: four-player pods almost always have at least one player running neither Zombies nor Humans, and tribal decks that care about preserving their own board will find this one of the cleanest asymmetric sweepers available at this cost. In Zombie or Human tribal builds specifically, Reign of Terror functions as a one-sided board wipe the majority of the time. Legacy and Vintage are legal homes on paper, but the formats are too fast and too creature-light for a four-mana sorcery to matter. Oathbreaker mirrors Commander's logic — tribal shells get real value here, everything else probably wants Toxic Deluge.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.21 bulk tier
At $0.21, Reign of Terror is deep bulk — grab a copy out of any common box without thinking twice. Bulk rare pricing means there's essentially no financial floor to fall through, and the tribal-sweeper niche it fills keeps it from being trade-binder chaff in the right decks.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.