Violent Impact
Sorcery
Destroy target artifact or land.
Cycling 
(, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Amonkhet
- Price
- $0.09
- EDHREC rank
- #19819
Violent Impact destroys a non-basic land and deals 2 damage to that permanent's controller — two effects stapled onto one common at three mana. It's fine in Pauper where land destruction is a real axis, but Commander's redundancy requirements and the prevalence of basic-heavy mana bases make it a weak slot most of the time.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Pauper, Violent Impact earns its slot — non-basic lands like Radiant Fountain and Haunted Fengraf see real play, and the 2 damage rider occasionally matters in aggressive builds. Commander is where Violent Impact struggles most: three mana for a single land is too slow and too narrow when decks run 35+ lands and bounce back easily, and the damage is incidental at best against 40-life totals. In Legacy and Vintage, land destruction at sorcery speed is simply not competitive when the format moves faster. Modern and Pioneer have enough non-basic activity that the effect is at least conceivable in a budget shell, but dedicated land-hate runs Strip Mine effects or cheaper spells.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.09 bulk tier
At $0.09, Violent Impact is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not card power. Bulk commons rarely move in price unless a format shift puts them on the map, and nothing on the horizon suggests that's coming here.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.