Is Time Wipe good in Commander?

Time Wipe in Commander — Combos, Decks & Price

Time Wipe clears the board and puts one of your creatures back in hand — a full reset that also protects your best threat. Five mana is a real cost, but Shiko and Narset, Unified and similar commanders that want to replay ETB creatures treat that bounce clause as a feature, not a consolation prize.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01

Shiko and Narset, Unified

39.5% of decks · synergy 0.33

Shiko and Narset, Unified needs exactly this: Time Wipe bounces Narset back to hand, which resets her spell-cast triggers and protects the commander from the graveyard tax at the same time.

02

Aminatou, Veil Piercer cares about cards with multiple card types, and Time Wipe slots in as both a wrath and a way to recover a key enchantment creature — bouncing it rather than letting it die keeps the engine intact.

03

Zethi, Arcane Blademaster

44.3% of decks · synergy 0.31

Zethi, Arcane Blademaster imprints instants and sorceries, so getting Time Wipe into the graveyard early and then recurring it repeatedly turns one board wipe into a standing threat every combat.

04

Kangee, Sky Warden

43.5% of decks · synergy 0.30

Kangee, Sky Warden builds around one dominant creature, and Time Wipe lets that deck sweep the board while tucking Kangee safely back to hand — no commander tax, board clear, repeat.

05

Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign

28.6% of decks · synergy 0.22

Time Wipe has an odd mana value of five, which means Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign can flip it off the top for free — a no-cost board wipe is exactly what an attack-trigger engine wants to cheat out.

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 Time Wipe earns its slot — the bounce clause converts a generic wrath into a commander-protection tool, which is uniquely valuable in a format built around one creature. In competitive Constructed formats like Modern and Pioneer, five mana is too slow for a sweeper that doesn't end the game outright, and the bounce effect is redundant when you'd rather everything die. Legacy and Vintage have access to faster, cheaper answers, so Time Wipe sees essentially no play there. Oathbreaker mirrors the Commander logic closely: protecting your planeswalker from your own wrath is real upside, and the format's singleton construction means redundancy in sweepers matters.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.36 bulk tier

At $0.36, Time Wipe is firmly bulk — easy to pick up as a throw-in or from any bargain bin. Bulk rares with narrow Commander applications tend to stay flat unless a new commander spikes demand, so this is a pick-up-when-you-need-it card, not one worth stocking ahead of time.