Wrack with Madness
Sorcery
Target creature deals damage to itself equal to its power.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Dark Ascension
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #25863
Wrack with Madness makes a creature fight itself — dealing its own power to itself — which kills anything with zero toughness remaining and doubles as a clean answer to indestructible creatures that lack that out. Three mana at sorcery speed is the real cost, and that speed kills its appeal outside of mono-red, where removal options are thin enough to make the tradeoff acceptable.
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 |
Wrack with Madness is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but it sees meaningful play in exactly one of those: Commander. In Pauper it's technically an option in red aggro or control, but sorcery speed at three mana competes poorly with cheaper, more reliable removal. In Legacy, Modern, and Vintage the card simply doesn't exist as a serious consideration — those formats have too many efficient answers that don't require the target to have power greater than toughness. Commander is its home because mono-red shells like Shanid or Purphoros lists lack access to Swords to Plowshares effects, and Wrack with Madness handles indestructible threats that red otherwise can't touch.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Wrack with Madness is deep bulk — you're picking it out of a dollar box, not tracking it on a buylist. Bulk commons with narrow applications don't move on price, so there's no financial reason to think twice about sleeving one up.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.