Sunder
Instant
Return all lands to their owners' hands.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Urza's Saga
- Price
- $4.59
- EDHREC rank
- #12665
Sunder bounces every land on the battlefield to its owner's hand — all players, all lands, no exceptions — for five mana at instant speed. It's a reset button that ends the game state as everyone knew it, and it wins on the spot in any deck that can replay its lands faster than the table can.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Sunder lives. The four-player format means three opponents lose access to their mana development simultaneously, and any commander that cheats lands into play — Omnath, Locus of Rage; The Gitrog Monster; Azusa, Lost but Seeking archetypes — converts that asymmetry into an unassailable board position. Legacy and Vintage permit it, but symmetrical land destruction is too slow and too fair for those formats; combo decks don't need it and control decks have better tools. Oathbreaker is legal and the logic mirrors Commander at a compressed scale.
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Price Context
Current price
$4.59 cheap tier
At $4.59, Sunder sits in the cheap tier — accessible for what it does. Demand is narrow and niche-specific, so the price is stable rather than climbing, but it won't drop further; every spike in land-matters commander popularity nudges it upward.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.