Selective Obliteration
Selective Obliteration: Sorcery, Modern Horizons 3 Commander. Each player chooses a color. Printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {3}{C}{C}
- Mana value
- 5
- Type
- Sorcery
- Colour identity
- Colourless
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- Modern Horizons 3 Commander (M3C)
- Released
- 2024-06-14
- Collector number
- 35
- Artist
- Yeong-Hao Han
- Commander rank
- 3,600 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
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About Selective Obliteration
Selective Obliteration is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare colourless sorcery from Modern Horizons 3 Commander (M3C), a Commander product released in June 2024. It is collector number 35 in that set, with art by Yeong-Hao Han. It costs {3}{C}{C} (three generic and two colourless mana) to cast, for a mana value of 5. It has no colour identity. It is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander and Oathbreaker. Modern Horizons 3 Commander is its only printing so far. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $1.59 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-01).
Card text
Each player chooses a color. Then exile each permanent unless it's colorless or it's only the color its controller chose.
"I don't know what's worse-that my family was taken, or that I wasn't." -Elsen, Sea Gate survivor
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $1.59 (as of 2026-11-01).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Selective Obliteration by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Legacy | Legal |
|---|---|
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
Official rulings
Five official rulings apply to Selective Obliteration, newest first.
- For example, say you control a colorless creature, a blue creature, a green creature, and a creature that's both blue and green. No matter what you choose, your colorless creature will not be exiled, and your creature that's both blue and green will be exiled. If you choose blue or green, the creature you control that is only that color will not be exiled. It doesn't matter what anyone else chooses.
- The colors chosen by players affect only whether or not permanents they control will be exiled. That choice does not affect whether particular permanents controlled by other players will be exiled.
- Lands have no mana cost, so they are colorless unless an effect states otherwise. The colors of mana that a land can produce do not affect that land's color.
- Players decide and announce in turn order, starting with the active player, which color they are choosing. Players later in the turn order will know which colors were chosen by players before them.
- No matter what color any player chooses, all multicolored permanents will be exiled.
Similar cards
Other sorcery cards with no colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.
In these precons
Selective Obliteration is in the decklist of these preconstructed Commander decks.