Stormplain Detainment
Enchantment
When this enchantment enters, exile target nonland permanent an opponent controls until this enchantment leaves the battlefield.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Tarkir: Dragonstorm
- Price
- $0.16
- EDHREC rank
- #14550
Stormplain Detainment exiles a nonland permanent until it leaves the battlefield — clean, unconditional removal stapled to an enchantment that your opponents have to answer twice. The cost is the fragility: if someone destroys Stormplain Detainment, the permanent comes back, which makes it a liability against decks that run enchantment removal.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Stormplain Detainment competes in a crowded slot alongside Grasp of Fate and Imprisoned in the Moon, and it loses that comparison on raw power — those cards either hit multiple targets or shut down a commander more permanently. In 60-card formats like Standard and Pioneer, the exile-until-leaves-play template sees play when the format is light on better options, and right now Stormplain Detainment is serviceable budget removal but not a first pick. Pauper is where it has the clearest argument: unconditional exile at common is rare enough that Stormplain Detainment earns genuine consideration there.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.16 bulk tier
At $0.16, Stormplain Detainment is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not scarcity. Bulk enchantment removal rarely spikes unless a competitive format adopts it, and nothing in the current metagame suggests that's coming.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.