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White Board Wipes

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

Last computed 2 Sep 2026 · recomputed weekly
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White board wipes ranked

What are the best white board wipes in MTG?

The best white board wipes in MTG are the ones players actually reach for, and only a handful of those measurably raise your win rate. The list below ranks every mono-white 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 145,968 tracked decks on Playgroup.gg.

See board wipes in every color on the main list.

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The most-played mono-white board wipes

Ranked by the number of tracked decks running the card, not by a rating. A win-rate lift appears beside the few cards whose measured effect on winning is clearly positive.

8,583
Decks running Austere Command
# Card Decks
1
Austere Command
Austere Command {4} {W} {W} 		8,583
2
Farewell
Farewell {4} {W} {W} +0.7% win rate · 15,069 games with it · 1827 pilots · 610 commander groups 		6,846
3
Promise of Loyalty
Promise of Loyalty {4} {W} 		4,202
4
Vanquish the Horde
Vanquish the Horde {6} {W} {W} 		3,599
5
Elspeth, Sun's Champion
Elspeth, Sun's Champion {4} {W} {W} 		2,867
6
Cleansing Nova
Cleansing Nova {3} {W} {W} 		2,788
7
Dusk // Dawn
Dusk // Dawn {2} {W} {W} // {3} {W} {W} 		2,663
8
Fumigate
Fumigate {3} {W} {W} 		2,576
9
Hour of Reckoning
Hour of Reckoning {4} {W} {W} {W} 		2,564
10
Wrath of God
Wrath of God {2} {W} {W} 		2,358
Show 20 more white board wipes (ranks 11-30)
# Card Decks
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Martial Coup
Martial Coup {X} {W} {W} 		2,238
12
Damning Verdict
Damning Verdict {3} {W} {W} 		2,163
13
Tragic Arrogance
Tragic Arrogance {3} {W} {W} 		2,054
14
Fell the Mighty
Fell the Mighty {4} {W} 		2,047
15
Dismantling Wave
Dismantling Wave {2} {W} +3.6% win rate · 1,109 games with it · 284 pilots · 55 commander groups 		1,963
16
Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite {5} {W} {W} +0.2% win rate · 3,659 games with it · 469 pilots · 188 commander groups 		1,947
17
Organic Extinction
Organic Extinction {8} {W} {W} 		1,906
18
Winds of Rath
Winds of Rath {3} {W} {W} 		1,851
19
Avatar's Wrath
Avatar's Wrath {2} {W} {W} +2.7% win rate · 2,667 games with it · 463 pilots · 145 commander groups 		1,763
20
Urza's Ruinous Blast
Urza's Ruinous Blast {4} {W} +0.6% win rate · 2,568 games with it · 405 pilots · 77 commander groups 		1,718
21
Avenge
Avenge {4} {W} {W} 		1,315
22
Single Combat
Single Combat {3} {W} {W} 		1,203
23
Winds of Abandon
Winds of Abandon {1} {W} 		1,181
24
Slaughter the Strong
Slaughter the Strong {1} {W} {W} 		1,177
25
The Battle of Bywater
The Battle of Bywater {1} {W} {W} 		1,109
26
Day of Judgment
Day of Judgment {2} {W} {W} 		1,103
27
Wakening Sun's Avatar
Wakening Sun's Avatar {5} {W} {W} {W} 		1,089
28
The Eternal Wanderer
The Eternal Wanderer {4} {W} {W} 		1,063
29
Split Up
Split Up {1} {W} {W} 		1,014
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Final Showdown
Final Showdown {W} 		1,005
Other colors

Board wipes in the other colors

A white deck can also run every colorless sweeper, and most Commander decks are not mono-colored:

Blue board wipes Black board wipes Red board wipes Green board wipes Colorless board wipes
Methodology

How this list is built

The candidate pool is every Commander-legal card carrying Scryfall's board-wipe oracle tag with a mono-white color identity. Multicolor cards are excluded on purpose: a white board wipe should go in any white deck. Each card is counted across every non-archived tracked deck whose mainboard contains it, and the list is ordered by that count.

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. Ordering thirty cards by a number whose confidence interval crosses zero for most of them would be ranking sampling error, so the list is ordered by deck count instead and the measurement rides alongside.

A win-rate lift appears beside a card only when it has been played enough to judge and its measured effect is clearly positive: minimums on games with the card, on separate commander groups and on distinct pilots, a cap on how much of the sample any one pilot may hold, and an interval 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.

Counts are drawn from 145,968 tracked decks on Playgroup.gg.

Read the full methodology on the main board wipes page

White 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.
Why are there no multicolor board wipes on this list?
Every list here is mono-colored on purpose. A mono-white board wipe goes in any deck whose color identity includes white, while a two or three color wipe only fits decks in those exact colors. Restricting each list to a single color identity means every card on it is playable in every deck that can cast that color, which is usually what people are asking for when they search for white board wipes.
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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Counted from decks and games tracked on Playgroup.gg. Every card name links to its full stat page.