Witness the End
Sorcery
Devoid (This card has no color.)
Target opponent exiles two cards from their hand and loses 2 life.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Oath of the Gatewatch
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #25386
Witness the End exiles an opponent's graveyard and makes them discard two cards — relevant disruption stapled onto a six-mana spell with cycling, so you're never stuck holding it. It's a role-player, not a headliner: run it when graveyard hate and hand disruption both matter to your meta.
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 Commander, Witness the End fills a narrow niche — graveyard hate that doubles as hand disruption is genuinely useful, and cycling keeps it from being a dead draw in matchups where you don't need it. The six-mana front end is steep for what it does, so it earns its slot most in decks that care about cycling synergies or are desperate for redundant graveyard removal on a budget. In Pauper, where graveyard decks are prevalent and common-legal hate is at a premium, Witness the End sees its most competitive application. Modern, Pioneer, and Legacy all have faster and more efficient graveyard hate available, so it's largely irrelevant in those formats.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Witness the End is deep bulk — you'll find it in a bulk rare box, not a store display case. Price stability at this tier is essentially guaranteed downward; there's no trajectory that takes a six-mana situational rare to relevance, so pick it up for pennies if you need it and don't think twice about the cost.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.