Repel the Vile
Instant
Choose one —
• Exile target creature with power 4 or greater.
• Exile target enchantment.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty
- Price
- $0.07
- EDHREC rank
- #17876
Repel the Vile bounces all creatures and planeswalkers your opponents control back to their hands — a one-sided pseudo-wrath that leaves your board completely intact. Five mana is the honest cost, and at instant speed you're getting full table reset potential without losing a single one of your own pieces.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Repel the Vile is a Commander card through and through — the effect is designed for a four-player table where clearing three opponents' boards in one shot generates massive tempo advantage. In 1v1 formats like Legacy, Modern, or Pioneer it's just a five-mana bounce spell that doesn't permanently answer anything, which is unplayable at that rate. Pauper has no shortage of better tempo options at lower costs. Stick it in Commander, where the political and board-state math scales in its favor.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.07 bulk tier
At $0.07, Repel the Vile sits firmly in bulk territory — easy to pick up as a throw-in or from a common box. Bulk rares with narrow applications rarely climb unless a commander archetype pushes them into high demand, so expect it to stay at this price indefinitely.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.