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MTG Board Wipes By color

Every wrath, sweeper and mass removal spell in Magic, sorted by how many tracked Commander decks actually run it

Last computed 3 Sep 2026 · recomputed weekly

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Board wipes ranked

What are the best MTG board wipes?

The best MTG board wipes are the ones players actually reach for, and only a handful of those measurably raise your win rate. The lists below rank every mono-color and colorless board wipe in Magic: The Gathering by how many tracked Commander decks run it, counted from real games on Playgroup.gg. Where a card has been played enough for us to measure its effect on winning, and that effect is clearly positive, its win-rate lift is shown beside the count.

Deck counts are drawn from 146,944 tracked decks on Playgroup.gg.

Lists last computed 3 Sep 2026 from decks and games tracked on Playgroup.gg.

By color

Board wipes by color

White board wipes Blue board wipes Black board wipes Red board wipes Green board wipes

Black Board Wipes

Black's sweepers kill by removing toughness or forcing sacrifices, so they get past indestructible where a destroy effect cannot.

13,074

Decks running Toxic Deluge

#	Card	Decks Decks running it	Win-rate lift
1	Toxic Deluge +2.2% win rate · 23,981 games with it · 2963 pilots · 796 commander groups	13,074	+2.2%
2	Living Death +0.1% win rate · 9,155 games with it · 1215 pilots · 289 commander groups	4,378	+0.1%
3	Damnation +1.1% win rate · 5,877 games with it · 754 pilots · 353 commander groups	3,628	+1.1%
4	Massacre Wurm +0.9% win rate · 7,639 games with it · 1014 pilots · 244 commander groups	3,448	+0.9%
5	The Meathook Massacre +2.5% win rate · 6,980 games with it · 916 pilots · 341 commander groups	3,408	+2.5%
6	Kindred Dominance	3,370	—
7	Blasphemous Edict	2,649	—
8	Decree of Pain	2,339	—
9	Liliana, Dreadhorde General	2,293	—
10	Crux of Fate	1,966	—

See the full black board wipe list

Red Board Wipes

Red wipes by dealing damage to everything, which is cheap and broad but stops working against high-toughness boards.

25,786

Decks running Blasphemous Act

#	Card	Decks Decks running it	Win-rate lift
1	Blasphemous Act +0.3% win rate · 50,055 games with it · 5425 pilots · 1141 commander groups	25,786	+0.3%
2	Vandalblast +0.3% win rate · 19,642 games with it · 2734 pilots · 743 commander groups	10,872	+0.3%
3	Chandra's Ignition +0.1% win rate · 10,475 games with it · 1367 pilots · 333 commander groups	4,080	+0.1%
4	Chain Reaction	3,970	—
5	Balefire Dragon	1,763	—
6	Fiery Confluence	1,682	—
7	Delayed Blast Fireball +1.6% win rate · 3,310 games with it · 448 pilots · 160 commander groups	1,548	+1.6%
8	Starstorm	1,209	—
9	Pyrohemia	1,205	—
10	Call Forth the Tempest +0.9% win rate · 2,241 games with it · 343 pilots · 123 commander groups	1,118	+0.9%

See the full red board wipe list

Blue Board Wipes

Blue rarely destroys. Its sweepers bounce, counter or tuck instead, which answers a board without filling graveyards.

12,837

Decks running Cyclonic Rift

#	Card	Decks Decks running it	Win-rate lift
1	Cyclonic Rift +3.2% win rate · 25,709 games with it · 2622 pilots · 888 commander groups	12,837	+3.2%
2	Aetherize	5,080	—
3	Raise the Palisade +0.7% win rate · 5,312 games with it · 804 pilots · 209 commander groups	3,840	+0.7%
4	Wave Goodbye +0.4% win rate · 4,390 games with it · 702 pilots · 99 commander groups	2,145	+0.4%
5	Perplexing Test	1,660	—
6	Desynchronization	1,220	—
7	Evacuation	1,188	—
8	Scourge of Fleets	999	—
9	Whelming Wave	962	—
10	Season of Weaving +0.1% win rate · 1,547 games with it · 232 pilots · 116 commander groups	849	+0.1%

See the full blue board wipe list

Green Board Wipes

Green barely has board wipes. It gets artifact and enchantment sweepers and punishers for fliers, but mass creature removal has never been in its color pie.

2,375

Decks running Bane of Progress

#	Card	Decks Decks running it	Win-rate lift
1	Bane of Progress	2,375	—
2	Ezuri's Predation	1,743	—
3	Season of Gathering +1.8% win rate · 2,758 games with it · 344 pilots · 168 commander groups	1,222	+1.8%
4	Welcome to . . . // Jurassic Park	520	—
5	Fade from History +1.3% win rate · 818 games with it · 127 pilots · 41 commander groups	451	+1.3%
6	Nylea's Intervention	373	—
7	Whiptongue Hydra	325	—
8	Silklash Spider	280	—
9	Rampage of the Clans	229	—
10	Back to Nature	190	—

See the full green board wipe list

White Board Wipes

White has the deepest wrath pool in the game: symmetrical destroy-all effects, priced to be castable on turn four.

8,646

Decks running Austere Command

#	Card	Decks Decks running it	Win-rate lift
1	Austere Command	8,646	—
2	Farewell +0.7% win rate · 15,118 games with it · 1834 pilots · 611 commander groups	6,879	+0.7%
3	Promise of Loyalty	4,220	—
4	Vanquish the Horde	3,617	—
5	Elspeth, Sun's Champion	2,892	—
6	Cleansing Nova	2,805	—
7	Dusk // Dawn //	2,683	—
8	Fumigate	2,602	—
9	Hour of Reckoning	2,585	—
10	Wrath of God	2,365	—

See the full white board wipe list

Colorless Board Wipes

Artifact and land sweepers any deck can play, whatever its color identity.

2,510

Decks running All Is Dust

#	Card	Decks Decks running it	Win-rate lift
1	All Is Dust	2,510	—
2	Steel Hellkite	2,495	—
3	Blast Zone	1,700	—
4	Ugin, the Spirit Dragon +1.2% win rate · 2,422 games with it · 347 pilots · 107 commander groups	1,519	+1.2%
5	Nevinyrral's Disk	1,404	—
6	Contagion Engine	1,043	—
7	Selective Obliteration	816	—
8	Calamity of the Titans	650	—
9	Extinguisher Battleship	557	—
10	Oblivion Stone	546	—

Show 20 more colorless board wipes (ranks 11-30)

#	Card	Decks Decks running it	Win-rate lift
11	Boompile	499	—
12	Perilous Vault	311	—
13	The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale	248	—
14	Worldslayer	193	—
15	The Moment	180	—
16	Kusari-Gama	179	—
17	Coercive Portal	159	—
18	Fraying Line	120	—
19	Ratchet Bomb	99	—
20	Aligned Hedron Network	91	—
21	Karn's Sylex	87	—
22	Engineered Explosives	70	—
23	Lockjaw Snapper	57	—
24	False Floor	53	—
25	The Filigree Sylex	43	—
26	Volatile Rig	42	—
27	Time Bomb	17	—
28	Leonin Bladetrap	14	—
29	Powder Keg	10	—
30	Golgothian Sylex	3	—

Cast on their turn

Instant-speed board wipes

An instant-speed wipe can be cast on an opponent's turn, after they have committed to an attack, which turns a sweeper into a combat trick and a punish for overextending. Every color is drawn together here, so the mana symbols beside each name are what tell you which decks can run it.

#	Card	Decks Decks running it	Win-rate lift
1	Cyclonic Rift +3.2% win rate · 25,709 games with it · 2622 pilots · 888 commander groups	12,837	+3.2%
2	Aetherize	5,080	—
3	Perplexing Test	1,660	—
4	Delayed Blast Fireball +1.6% win rate · 3,310 games with it · 448 pilots · 160 commander groups	1,548	+1.6%
5	Desynchronization	1,220	—
6	Starstorm	1,209	—
7	Evacuation	1,188	—
8	Final Showdown	1,011	—
9	Aetherspouts	787	—
10	Magmaquake	587	—
11	Zimone's Hypothesis	581	—
12	Fire Magic	564	—
13	Ugin's Binding +2.4% win rate · 1,103 games with it · 150 pilots · 35 commander groups	474	+2.4%
14	Filter Out	387	—
15	Engulf the Shore	368	—

Methodology

How these board wipe lists are built

Start with the finding, because it shapes everything else on this page: most board wipes do not measurably change whether you win. We compare decks that run a card against decks on the same commander that do not, pool those matched comparisons, and ask whether the difference is bigger than chance. In every color, only a handful of wipes clear that bar. The rest are played widely and honestly, and we cannot tell you they help.

That is why the lists are ordered by deck count rather than by the measurement. Sorting thirty cards by a number whose confidence interval crosses zero for two thirds of them would be ranking sampling error and calling it insight. Deck count is a smaller claim, but it is one the data can actually carry, and it answers the question people arrive with: what do Commander players put in their decks?

The win-rate lift is therefore a marker, not the ranking. It appears beside a card only when that card has been played enough to judge and its measured effect is clearly positive, which means clearing minimums on games with the card, on how many separate commander groups it was seen in and on how many different pilots played it, with a cap on how much of the sample any one pilot may hold, and then landing entirely above zero. A card that was measured and came out flat gets an empty cell rather than a number near zero, because a number near zero reads as a verdict and this one is not.

Read that figure as a difference, not a multiplier. A +2.2% lift means a deck running the card wins 2.2 percentage points more often than decks on the same commander without it: 27.2% of its games rather than 25.0%. It is not a 2.2% relative increase, and it is not a claim that the card wins 2.2% of your games on its own.

The candidate pool itself is every Commander-legal card carrying Scryfall's board-wipe oracle tag, which is a human-curated tag rather than a text search, so it catches sweepers that never use the word destroy. Multicolor cards are left out on purpose: someone searching for black board wipes wants mono-black cards they can put in any black deck, not gold cards that need a second color. Each surviving card is counted across every non-archived tracked deck whose mainboard contains it.

Counts are drawn from 146,944 tracked decks on Playgroup.gg.

The board-wipe oracle tag comes from Scryfall and popularity across public decklists is answered better by EDHREC than by us. What we add is the count from decks that were actually played, and the measured effect on winning where there is one to report.

MTG board wipes FAQ

What is a board wipe in Magic: The Gathering?

A board wipe is a spell or ability that removes every creature on the battlefield at once, or every permanent of a given type. Players also call them wraths, after Wrath of God, or sweepers. In Commander they are the main way a table answers a board it cannot beat in combat.

Does indestructible stop a board wipe?

Only against board wipes that use the word destroy. An indestructible creature survives Wrath of God, Damnation and Blasphemous Act. It does not survive a wipe that exiles, such as Farewell, one that makes each player sacrifice, or one that gives -X/-X, such as Toxic Deluge or The Meathook Massacre. Those kill by removing toughness or by changing zones, and neither cares about indestructible.

Does protection stop a board wipe?

Usually not. Protection from a colour stops damage, enchanting and equipping, blocking, and being targeted by sources of that colour. Almost no board wipe targets anything, so protection from black will not save a creature from Damnation. It does help against wipes that deal damage, such as Blasphemous Act against protection from red.

Do hexproof and shroud protect against board wipes?

No. Hexproof and shroud only stop a creature being targeted, and the overwhelming majority of board wipes do not target. Wrath effects say destroy all creatures, which affects every creature at once without ever choosing one. A hexproof commander dies to a wipe like any other creature.

Why does this list look different from other board wipe lists?

Most board wipe lists are one writer's ranking. This one is counted. Every card here is a Scryfall-tagged board wipe, ordered by how many tracked Commander decks actually run it, so the list reflects what players sleeve up rather than what an editor rates. We also measure whether each card raises a deck's win rate against decks running the same commander without it. Most board wipes do not move win rate by an amount we can distinguish from chance, so only the few that clearly do carry a win-rate figure.

Which colour has the best board wipes?

White and black have the deepest options and the most played ones. Red is broad but mostly damage-based, so it struggles against high-toughness boards. Blue tends to bounce rather than destroy. Green barely has board wipes at all: it gets artifact and enchantment sweepers and effects that punish fliers, but almost nothing that destroys all creatures, because mass creature removal has never been part of green's colour pie.

Which board wipes work at instant speed?

Instant-speed board wipes let you wrath on an opponent's turn, usually after they have committed to an attack or resolved a threat. Blue has the most that see real play. Most mass removal in Magic is sorcery speed, so instants are the minority in every color, and several colors have instant options that almost nobody runs.

Do board wipes actually win games?

Mostly they do not, at least not measurably. Across our tracked Commander games only a handful of board wipes in each color raise a deck's win rate by an amount we can distinguish from chance. The rest are played widely without a measurable effect on whether you win. That is not an argument against running one. A wrath is a reactive card, and its value depends on the board it answers rather than on being drawn every game.

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