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Crumble to Dust

Sorcery3 generic manaRed mana

Land destruction usually settles for removing one piece of mana; this goes after the concept of the land. Exiling a nonbasic and then sweeping every copy with that name out of the graveyard, hand, and library turns a single removal spell into permanent excision: the target player will not draw another Cabal Coffers, Gaea's Cradle, or Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle from their deck once the spell resolves, because every printing of that name is pulled out of the zones they could reach and locked away in exile. That makes it a hate card aimed at a specific kind of opponent: not the manabase generally, but the one named land a strategy is built to recur, untap, or assemble around. Fetching a basic, or a deck that simply runs an unremarkable utility land, blunts it entirely; the spell rewards knowing exactly which card carries the opposing engine. The devoid keyword is the quieter note. The spell still wants red mana to cast, but the effect produces no color of its own, so it answers a question with no colored fingerprint, sitting alongside colorless-matters concerns rather than registering as red interaction. The trade-off is steep and deliberate: four mana, sorcery speed, and an answer to exactly one card. Against a basic land it does nothing at all. It is built to be a dead draw in most games and a backbreaker in the few where the opponent leans on a single irreplaceable nonbasic.

Crumble to Dust (bfz)
BFZ · #128uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.06
Foil: $0.46
Oracle Text

Rules text

Devoid (This card has no color.) Exile target nonbasic land. Search its controller's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with the same name as that land and exile them. Then that player shuffles.
Legalities

Format Status

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

Other printings

1 set
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