Resounding Silence
Instant
Exile target attacking creature.
Cycling 
(, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
When you cycle this card, exile up to two target attacking creatures.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GUW
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Shards of Alara
- Price
- $0.13
- EDHREC rank
- #28609
Resounding Silence exiles a target attacking creature for four mana — clean, unconditional, and permanent. The ceiling is the cycling ability: pay seven mana and you exile every attacking creature your opponents control, which in a four-player Commander game is a full board wipe stapled to a removal spell.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Resounding Silence earns its slot almost exclusively on the back of that cycled mode — wiping every attacking creature across three opponents at instant speed is a blowout that most white sweepers can't match. The base mode is a four-mana Swords to Plowshares with no upside, which is unplayable in Legacy and Vintage where the original costs one. Pauper is the one non-Commander format where it sees fringe use, since unconditional exile at common is genuinely scarce and the cycling cost is reachable in slower games. Modern and Pioneer have long outpaced it on efficiency.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.13 bulk tier
At $0.13, Resounding Silence is pure bulk — grab a copy from any common box without thinking twice. Don't expect price movement; it's never been in demand and nothing about its power level is likely to change that.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.