658 Commander-legal cards are board wipes. The most-played are Blasphemous Act, Cyclonic Rift and Toxic Deluge (card data dated November 11, 2026).
Board wipes deal with every creature at once: destroy, exile, shrink or burn them all in one card. 658 Commander-legal wipes, most-played first.
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Ranked most-played first, the best board wipes in Commander are Blasphemous Act, Cyclonic Rift, Toxic Deluge, Farewell and Austere Command. Every card on this list is legal in Commander as of the card data dated November 11, 2026.
A board wipe resets the game when you fall behind: one card answers every threat on the table, which is why nearly every Commander deck runs a few.
Destroy effects are the classic wrath. Exile and tuck effects also handle indestructible creatures and creatures that come back from the graveyard. -X/-X wipes kill by lowering toughness, damage wipes kill with lethal damage, and one-sided wipes spare your own board. Bounce and sacrifice wipes also get around indestructible.
Rules note: an indestructible creature survives destroy effects and lethal damage, but not exile, a tuck, or a -X/-X effect that brings its toughness to 0 or less, because a creature with 0 or less toughness is put into its owner's graveyard.
658 cards in all. The 60 most-played are listed here, each linked to its page with printings, prices and format legality.
Commander-legal cards whose rules text destroys, exiles, tucks or returns to hand all creatures or all nonland permanents, makes players sacrifice them (or all but the ones they choose), destroys all but the chosen creatures, gives creatures -X/-X or -1/-1 counters, or deals damage to each creature. Overloaded spells count with their overload text. Effects that put creatures back onto the battlefield as part of the same effect, such as a mass flicker or Living Death, are not counted. One entry per card, most-played first.
Built from the card data dated 2026-11-11.