Stain the Mind
Sorcery
Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for 
or one mana of that creature's color.)
Choose a nonland card name. Search target player's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with that name and exile them. Then that player shuffles.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Magic 2015
- Price
- $0.14
- EDHREC rank
- #27887
Stain the Mind removes every copy of a named card from every zone simultaneously — hand, library, graveyard, and exile — making it the most thorough answer to a combo piece that black has access to. The catch is convoke: you're tapping your own creatures to cast it, which means it belongs in go-wide shells, not control lists.
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 |
Commander is where Stain the Mind actually earns a slot — three opponents means three libraries worth of threats to strip, and naming a single win condition can lock a table out of its primary line. In competitive Legacy and Vintage, the convoke cost is a dealbreaker; faster and cheaper discard exists, so it sees essentially no play there. Modern and Pioneer have the same problem: by the time you have creatures to convoke it out, the game is already decided. Oathbreaker mirrors the Commander case on a smaller scale, and token-heavy builds that can convoke it out early get real mileage from the omni-zone erasure.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.14 bulk tier
At $0.14, Stain the Mind is deep bulk — a trivial pickup for any token deck that wants the effect. Price is unlikely to move absent a reprint into a high-profile product, but at this number there's no reason to hesitate.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.