Renounce
Instant
Sacrifice any number of permanents. You gain 2 life for each permanent sacrificed this way.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Mercadian Masques
- Price
- $0.36
- EDHREC rank
- #20511
Renounce wipes your entire board — permanents, hand, all of it — for two mana, which is either a catastrophic own-goal or the exact engine piece you need. The only deck that wants this is one built around Barren Glory, where emptying your side is the win condition, not the concession.
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 |
Renounce is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, and irrelevant in all of them except as a combo piece in dedicated Barren Glory shells. In Commander specifically, the effect is so symmetrically punishing to yourself that it sees virtually no play outside of singleton combo decks engineered to win on the upkeep trigger after resolving it. Legacy and Vintage have no shell that wants to sacrifice everything at instant speed without a guaranteed win attached, so Renounce sits firmly in the novelty bin across both formats.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Barren GloryRenounce
Near-infinite lifegain; Win the game at the beginning of your next upkeep
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Current price
$0.36 bulk tier
At $0.36, Renounce is bulk, and that price reflects its near-zero demand outside of niche combo builds. It won't climb — the card does exactly one thing and the decks that want it need exactly one copy.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.