Spark Rupture
Enchantment
When this enchantment enters, draw a card.
Each planeswalker with one or more loyalty counters on it loses all abilities and is a creature with power and toughness each equal to the number of loyalty counters on it.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- March of the Machine: The Aftermath
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #21236
Spark Rupture shuts down a permanent's activated and triggered abilities — on the board, immediately, no stack tricks required — and it sticks around as an ongoing lock rather than a one-time answer. The enchantment-on-a-permanent angle means it trades instant-speed flexibility for continuous suppression, which is the right trade when the threat is a recurring engine rather than a one-shot effect.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Spark Rupture answers the threats that removal can't cleanly handle — commanders with powerful activated abilities, combo pieces that need a trigger window, or engines like planeswalkers whose loyalty abilities are the entire threat. Competitive tables running ability-based combos will find it situationally useful, though the single-target scope limits it compared to broader hate pieces. In Modern and Pioneer, the card competes against a deep pool of interaction, so it earns a slot only when the meta presents specific ability-based targets that other enchantments or counterspells don't address as cleanly. Legacy and Vintage move too fast for a two-mana aura to reliably matter — Spark Rupture is legal in both, but it's not where it wants to be.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data for Spark Rupture isn't available at time of writing, so check current listings before budgeting around it. Given its narrow, reactive role, it's unlikely to command a premium unless a specific meta target drives demand.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.