Terror Tide
Sorcery
Fathomless descent — All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of permanent cards in your graveyard.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Promos
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #6048
Terror Tide wipes the board of every creature with the highest toughness among those in your graveyard — a scalable, graveyard-fueled reset that gets more one-sided the deeper your bin runs. The Ancient One decks hit five or six toughness reliably, meaning Terror Tide routinely clears the table while leaving your fatties standing.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
The Ancient One
The Ancient One mills aggressively and rewards a stocked graveyard, so Terror Tide's threshold scales up fast — by mid-game you're wiping everything at four or five toughness while your own eldritch threats survive.
Zoyowa Lava-Tongue
Zoyowa Lava-Tongue fills the graveyard through discard and looting effects, giving Terror Tide enough fuel to hit a high toughness number while also advancing the self-mill gameplan.
The Mycotyrant
The Mycotyrant runs out a wide board of small fungi, so Terror Tide does double duty — clearing enemy blockers while the toughness threshold stays high enough to spare the Mycotyrant itself.
Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord packs the graveyard as a resource, and Terror Tide slots in as a one-sided sweep that cleans up opposing boards while leaving Jarad's fattest creatures untouched.
Old Stickfingers
Old Stickfingers dumps a pile of high-toughness creatures directly into the graveyard on cast, so Terror Tide can land with an immediate, predictable threshold that wipes most tables clean on the spot.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Terror Tide earns its slot — graveyard-heavy black-green strategies fill the bin fast enough that the toughness threshold reaches four or five by mid-game, turning this into a one-sided Damnation. In 1v1 formats like Modern and Pioneer, Terror Tide is too slow and too conditional; graveyard hate shuts off its upside, and five mana is a steep ask when symmetrical wraths exist at lower cost. Legacy and Vintage have access to so much efficient disruption that Terror Tide never gets the setup it needs. Standard is the one exception worth watching — if a graveyard-matters archetype is legal alongside it, the card punches above its cost.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.