Wash Out
Sorcery
Return all permanents of the color of your choice to their owners' hands.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Double Masters 2022
- Price
- $0.47
- EDHREC rank
- #5273
Wash Out returns every permanent of a chosen color to its owners' hands — at four mana, that's one of the most lopsided tempo swings available to blue. In a Kami of the Crescent Moon deck handing opponents extra cards, it punishes them for having full hands and a board simultaneously.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Kami of the Crescent Moon
Kami of the Crescent Moon stocks opponents' hands through its draw triggers, so Wash Out doubles as both a reset button and a punishment engine — everything they drew comes right back to join everything they bounced.
Talrand, Sky Summoner
Talrand, Sky Summoner turns every instant into a 2/2 Drake token, and Wash Out is an instant — so the bounce spell that wipes a color off the board also drops a flying body into play.
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 |
Wash Out lives almost entirely in Commander, where targeting a single color at a four-player table can clear three opponents' boards in one stroke. Legacy and Vintage permit it, but the competition from Cyclonic Rift, Evacuation, and other sweepers is stiff enough that it rarely sees play there. In Commander specifically, the color-targeting clause is the point — naming the dominant color at the table lets you discriminate between threats while leaving your own board untouched, which no generic bounce sweeper does. Oathbreaker is legal and the two-player dynamic weakens it slightly, since you lose the multi-opponent leverage. Outside those formats, Wash Out is simply not printable into the card pool.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.47 bulk tier
At $0.47, Wash Out is firmly bulk — a four-mana blue instant with this much board impact should cost more, and the price reflects that it's been reprinted enough to stay accessible. It holds value the way most cheap Commander staples do: flat and stable, not climbing, just reliably affordable.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.