Seal of Cleansing
Enchantment
Sacrifice this enchantment: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Vintage Masters
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #3089
Seal of Cleansing answers an enchantment or artifact the moment you need it to — the payoff is instant, the setup cost is one white mana and a spare enchantment slot. Where it earns its keep beyond generic removal is in recursion shells: Emeria Shepherd loops it back repeatedly, and Tameshi, Reality Architect turns it into a reusable, on-demand answer engine.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Tameshi, Reality Architect
Tameshi, Reality Architect's whole game is bouncing permanents back to hand and replaying them for value, and Seal of Cleansing slots in as a repeatable removal piece that Tameshi can retrieve turn after turn — 56% of Tameshi decks run it for exactly that loop.
Lurrus of the Dream-Den
Lurrus of the Dream-Den lets you recast Seal of Cleansing from the graveyard every turn, converting a one-shot answer into a persistent threat against artifact and enchantment strategies — that recurring pressure is why it shows up in over 57% of Lurrus lists.
Daxos the Returned
Daxos the Returned cares about enchantments entering the battlefield to generate spirit tokens and experience counters, so Seal of Cleansing does double duty: it removes a threat and ticks up the experience counter count every time it resolves or gets replayed.
Narci, Fable Singer
Narci, Fable Singer rewards you for enchantments leaving play as much as entering, so Seal of Cleansing generates value in two directions — it removes an opposing permanent and feeds Narci's drain trigger when it sacrifices itself.
Sythis, Harvest's Hand
Sythis, Harvest's Hand draws a card whenever an enchantment enters under your control, so Seal of Cleansing is a removal spell that replaces itself on cast, a trade that no straight-up answer like Disenchant can match in the same shell.
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, Seal of Cleansing is a niche pick — you run it specifically because your deck recurs or replays enchantments, not as a general-purpose answer slot where Disenchant or Generous Gift do the same job faster. In Pauper it competes on a more even playing field, where the enchantment subtype matters less but the sorcery-speed sacrifice restriction costs more, making it a reasonable budget option rather than the default. Legacy and Vintage have access to strictly faster hate, so Seal of Cleansing doesn't see meaningful play in those formats outside of deliberate combo or recursion builds. Oathbreaker mirrors the Commander read: relevant primarily in enchantment-matters lists, otherwise outclassed.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Emeria ShepherdParallax TideSeal of Cleansing
Infinite blinking of lands; Infinite landfall triggers; Infinite mana lands you control can produce
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Current price
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Seal of Cleansing has been reprinted often enough to keep it firmly in bulk territory — expect to find copies for well under a dollar at any LGS or major online retailer. At that price point there's no wrong time to pick up a copy if you're building an enchantment recursion deck, though it won't move the needle on your budget either way.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.