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Austere Command

First printed in Lorwyn (2007)

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Austere Command

Sorcery

Choose two —
• Destroy all artifacts.
• Destroy all enchantments.
• Destroy all creatures with mana value 3 or less.
• Destroy all creatures with mana value 4 or greater.

Illustrated by
Wayne England

Legality

Rulings (3)

  • Each of the chosen modes happens sequentially. If a permanent has an ability that triggers whenever it or another permanent is destroyed, it will see permanents destroyed at the same time as it or before it, but not permanents destroyed by later modes.
  • If the first and last modes are chosen, an artifact creature with mana value 4 or greater will have to be regenerated twice to survive. This is because the modes happen sequentially, and the regeneration "shield" is used up by the first one. The same is true with any other combination of modes that covers one permanent twice.
  • If a card is exiled "until" another permanent leaves the battlefield, the exiled card returns to the battlefield immediately after that permanent leaves the battlefield during Austere Command's resolution, and it may be destroyed by a later mode.

Prices

MTGO price: 0.006 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 30 Oct 2026).

In Limited on MTG Arena

Win rates in Arena drafts and sealed, retrieved from 17Lands (CC BY 4.0).

Win rates of Austere Command in Limited
Set GIH WR vs set IWD Games
Reality Fracture (FRA), Premier Draft 63.1% +7.7 +10.4 719
GIH WR
win rate of the games in which the card was in the opening hand or drawn
vs set
points above or below the average win rate of all decks in the set
IWD
improvement when drawn: GIH WR minus the win rate when the card stayed in the library
Games
games in which the card was seen

Combos

12 combos, the most popular first:

See all 12 on Commander Spellbook

Commander In 20 of 6185 decks (0.3%), most in Vraska, Soul of Stone

Share of decks
0.3%
▼ 0.1 vs previous 30 days
2026-08-22: 0.4% 2026-08-29: 0.4% 2026-09-05: 0.3% 2026-09-12: 0.7% 2026-09-19: 0.2% 2026-09-26: 0.8% 2026-10-03: 0.3% 2026-10-10: 0.3% 2026-10-17: 0.2% 2026-10-24: 0.3%
Weekly, last 90 days
Decks
20
20 main, 0 sideboard
Avg. copies
1.0
in the main deck
Win rate
–
6 top 8 (challenges only)

Archetypes by metagame share

Archetype Meta Play it
Vraska, Soul of Stone 0.5% 6%
The Wandering Minstrel 0.4% 5%
Pantlaza, Sun-Favored 0.1% 20%
Sidar Jabari of Zhalfir 0.1% 25%
Giada, Font of Hope 0.0% 100%
Satya, Aetherflux Genius 0.0% 67%
Captain America, Team Leader 0.0% 100%
Director Nick Fury 0.0% 100%

Played together with

Card Together Lift
Sol Ring100%1.0
Swords to Plowshares95%5.1
Arcane Signet95%1.5
Command Tower80%0.9
Exotic Orchard70%1.8
Path of Ancestry50%31.6
Path to Exile45%7.3
Mystic Monastery40%176.7
Clifftop Retreat40%58.9
Fellwar Stone40%1.2

Best win rate

No challenge results yet.

Challenges only: MTGO publishes only the 5-0 league decks.

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