Urgent Exorcism
Instant
Destroy target Spirit or enchantment.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Innistrad
- Price
- $0.06
- EDHREC rank
- #28082
Urgent Exorcism hits a Spirit or enchantment at instant speed for two mana — clean, flexible, and no strings attached. It's a serviceable role-player in formats where those permanent types run rampant, but it sits one tier below unconditional removal.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Urgent Exorcism competes in a crowded slot against broader instant-speed answers, and the Spirit or enchantment restriction will leave it stranded against the wrong board state. Pauper is where it earns real consideration — enchantment-heavy decks are common and unconditional removal at this cost is scarcer, so the targeting restriction hurts less. In Legacy and Vintage, the card is legal but far too narrow; the sheer density of better options makes it irrelevant in those formats. Oathbreaker mirrors the Commander calculus: run it if your meta justifies it, cut it if you need a cleaner catch-all.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.06 bulk tier
At $0.06, Urgent Exorcism is pure bulk — zero financial friction to try it and zero value to protect. It holds no price floor worth considering; pick it up for pennies or ignore it entirely based purely on whether the effect fits your deck.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.