Ruinous Rampage

In Commander, Ruinous Rampage fills a niche as a scalable, instant-speed threat answer in red — pump enough mana into X and it clears a single player's board while leaving yours untouched. The problem is the one-opponent ceiling: in a four-player pod, you're spending six or eight mana to solve one threat and handing the other two players a free turn. In 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer, Ruinous Rampage never sees play because point-and-click removal handles individual threats far more efficiently than an overcosted X-spell. Standard gives it breathing room as a build-around in big-mana red, but better options exist at every price point.