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Austere Command
Oracle Text
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.
Card Details
Mana CostCharacter Background
Austere Command is a quintessential white control finisher: calm, judgmental, and devastatingly flexible. Rather than wiping the board indiscriminately, it lets you sculpt the battlefield by choosing two modes, which makes it excellent in value- and control-oriented Commander decks that can break parity. In practice, the best pairings usually target artifacts and enchantments, or sweep away small creatures while sparing your own larger board, but the card is also a strong recovery tool against token swarms or midrange piles depending on your build. It shines especially in decks packed with resilient threats, planeswalkers, or high-mana-value finishers that survive one of the creature modes. A useful deckbuilding tip is to run a curve that naturally dodges your own chosen sweep, such as five- and six-mana creatures, mana rocks, and enchantment-based engines, so Austere Command functions as a one-sided reset. Its lore-like tone feels like a stern decree: measured, selective, and absolute.
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Character Background
Austere Command is a quintessential white control finisher: calm, judgmental, and devastatingly flexible. Rather than wiping the board indiscriminately, it lets you sculpt the battlefield by choosing two modes, which makes it excellent in value- and control-oriented Commander decks that can break parity. In practice, the best pairings usually target artifacts and enchantments, or sweep away small creatures while sparing your own larger board, but the card is also a strong recovery tool against token swarms or midrange piles depending on your build. It shines especially in decks packed with resilient threats, planeswalkers, or high-mana-value finishers that survive one of the creature modes. A useful deckbuilding tip is to run a curve that naturally dodges your own chosen sweep, such as five- and six-mana creatures, mana rocks, and enchantment-based engines, so Austere Command functions as a one-sided reset. Its lore-like tone feels like a stern decree: measured, selective, and absolute.
Generated using gpt-5.4-mini · Updated at 2026-08-21 16:40:47 UTC