Wave of Vitriol
Sorcery
Each player sacrifices all artifacts, enchantments, and nonbasic lands they control. For each land sacrificed this way, its controller may search their library for a basic land card and put it onto the battlefield tapped. Then each player who searched their library this way shuffles.
- CMC
- 7
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Commander Anthology
- Price
- $1.70
- EDHREC rank
- #12202
Wave of Vitriol hits every non-land permanent that isn't a basic — artifacts, enchantments, and nonbasic lands all go, and opponents only replace lands with basics from their libraries, leaving them mana-shocked and threat-stripped in one shot. Eight mana is the real cost, and it ends games of resource accumulation rather than starting them.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Freyalise, Llanowar's Fury
Freyalise, Llanowar's Fury generates Llanowar Elves tokens to ramp into Wave of Vitriol's eight-mana threshold while also producing enchantment removal — the two effects attack the same axis, stripping opponents of the artifacts and enchantments Freyalise can't hit at scale on her own.
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 |
Wave of Vitriol is a Commander card through and through — four opponents means four hands of artifacts, enchantments, and nonbasic lands disappearing simultaneously, which is the kind of asymmetric board reset that only multiplayer math can justify. In Legacy and Vintage, where it's technically legal, the eight-mana cost is a non-starter against formats defined by two-mana countermagic and threats that end the game on turn two. Oathbreaker shares Commander's multiplayer texture and could support it in a dedicated green stompy shell, though the smaller deck size makes reaching eight mana less consistent. Anywhere the game doesn't go long and wide, Wave of Vitriol sits in the binder.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$1.70 cheap tier
At $1.70, Wave of Vitriol sits firmly in budget territory for the effect it delivers — a mass nonbasic-land wipe attached to enchantment and artifact removal would cost multiples more if the card had a lower mana cost. The price reflects the ceiling that eight mana imposes, not any shortage of demand.
Explore
Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.