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Banishment

Enchantment3 generic manaWhite mana

Flash is the entire argument here. Most exile-until-it-leaves effects in white are global enchantments or ETB triggers on creatures, and they answer one permanent at a time. This one gets to sit up during an opponent's turn and pull the trigger on the stack, which matters when the thing you want gone is a fresh attacker or a token maker that just cracked open. The doubling clause is the quieter piece of design: exiling every nonland permanent your opponents control that shares a name catches not just the copy you targeted but every duplicate across the table, so it lands hardest against token swarms, cloned artifacts, and mirrored ramp pieces where a single name is spread across multiple bodies. The tradeoff is that the exile is a lease, not a sale. Kill the enchantment and everything comes back, which turns Banishment into a temporary answer that any disenchant effect can unwind, and gives it an unusual downside: bounce it yourself and you willingly hand the pile back. That fragility is the price for the flash and the multi-target reach. It reads like a fair-magic tool for multi-opponent boards, where flashing in to strip a board state at instant speed buys a turn without permanently removing a threat, and where the shared-name clause rewards you for reading which player overcommitted to redundancy.

Banishment (clb)
CLB · #8uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.26
Foil: $0.16
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flash When this enchantment enters, exile target nonland permanent an opponent controls and all other nonland permanents your opponents control with the same name as that permanent until this enchantment leaves the battlefield.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
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