Eliminate the Competition
Eliminate the Competition: Sorcery, Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander. As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice X creatures. On Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {4}{B}
- Mana value
- 5
- Type
- Sorcery
- Colour identity
- Black (B)
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)
- Released
- 2025-04-11
- Collector number
- 179
- Artist
- Joseph Meehan
- Commander rank
- 10,777 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
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About Eliminate the Competition
Eliminate the Competition is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare black sorcery from Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC), a Commander product released in April 2025. It is collector number 179 in that set, with art by Joseph Meehan. It costs {4}{B} (four generic and one black mana) to cast, for a mana value of 5. Its colour identity is black. It is legal in Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker and Penny Dreadful. It has been printed in 3 sets, from Kaladesh (2016) to Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (2025). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.26 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-03).
Card text
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice X creatures.
Destroy X target creatures.
Open hostilities are strictly forbidden at the Inventors' Fair, but "accidents" still happen.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.26 (as of 2026-11-03).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Eliminate the Competition by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Pioneer | Legal |
|---|---|
| Modern | Legal |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Penny Dreadful | Legal |
Other printings of Eliminate the Competition
Eliminate the Competition has been printed in 3 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Kaladesh (KLD) #78 | Rare | 2016 |
| Kaladesh Promos (PKLD) #78s | Rare | 2016 |
Official rulings
Two official rulings apply to Eliminate the Competition, newest first.
- If you somehow cast Eliminate the Competition without paying its mana cost, you'll still choose a value for X and sacrifice X creatures.
- Once you announce that you're casting Eliminate the Competition, players can't try to remove creatures you'd like to sacrifice.
Similar cards
Other sorcery cards with a black colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.
In these precons
Eliminate the Competition is in the decklist of these preconstructed Commander decks.
- Mardu Surge (TDC), led by Zurgo Stormrender