Price$0.42 – $2.96
Buy on TCGplayerAustere Command
Sorcery
LegalBoard WipeRank #168
Choose two —
• Destroy all artifacts.
• Destroy all enchantments.
• Destroy all creatures with mana value 3 or less.
• Destroy all creatures with mana value 4 or greater.
Why is this card good?
Austere Command is the gold standard of modular board wipes — its flexibility is exactly what makes it premium in Commander.
The "choose two" structure lets you tailor the wrath to the table and, crucially, to your own board. Going wide with tokens? Destroy big creatures + artifacts while keeping your small fry. Playing a few fat threats? Sweep small creatures + enchantments and leave your bombs standing. That asymmetry is what separates it from vanilla wraths like Day of Judgment.
Wants it: basically any white deck that isn't hyper-aggressive. It's especially strong in control, midrange, and decks built around either very cheap or very expensive creatures, where you can wipe one half and dodge your own stuff. The artifact/enchantment modes also make it valuable answer-density in a format full of mana rocks and problematic enchantments.
Skip it in fast aggro/tokens decks where six mana for a wrath is too slow and clunky, or in lists that need creatures on board to win and can't easily build asymmetry.
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Printings (22)
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Played by these commanders
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Combos (8)
- Zedruu the Greathearted + Nine Lives + Austere Command
→ Target opponent loses the game
- Nine Lives + Harmless Offering + Austere Command
→ Target opponent loses the game
- Nine Lives + Donate + Austere Command
→ Target opponent loses the game
- Biorhythm + Austere Command
→ Draw the game, Each opponent loses the game
- Nine Lives + Fractured Identity + Austere Command + Angel's Grace
→ Each opponent loses the game
- Nine Lives + Fractured Identity + Austere Command + Platinum Angel
→ Each opponent loses the game