The 30 Best Enchantment Board Wipes in Magic Ranked

Last updated on June 18, 2026

Dismantling Wave | Illustration by Raoul Vitale

Each color in MTG deals best with a specific type of card. Red hates artifacts. Black hates creatures.

Since white and green are the Naturalize / Disenchant colors, it’s natural that hating on enchantments falls into the GW part of the color pie.

MTG has plenty of ways to prevent enchantment decks from getting out of control, and today we'll look at the best enchantment board wipes MTG has to offer. These can be a metagame call in some 1v1 formats, or regular players in your casual EDH decks – after all, enchantress decks are quite common.

What Are Enchantment Board Wipes in MTG?

Paraselene | Illustration by Ryan Yee

Enchantment board wipes are cards that get rid of all or most enchantments in play. They can get rid of other stuff too, and many cards that destroy all enchantments also destroy all artifacts, like Cleansing Nova. If a card is modal and has a “destroy all enchantments” among other options, it’s probably on the list.

I’m avoiding cards that broadly deal with all nonland permanents since these effects are too broad. No Ruinous Ultimatum or Hour of Revelation. Enchantment must be mentioned in the rules text somewhere.

#30. Patrician's Scorn

Patrician's Scorn can be cast for free, but you need to double spell. Not that hard, eh? You can also easily synergize with flurry cards this way.

#29. Serenity

The good news with Serenity is that you’ll only pay 2 mana. The weird side is that it sits on the battlefield and your opponents have a turn to interact with it.

#28. Paraselene

MTG has many “destroy all enchantments” sorceries for 3 mana, like Tranquility and Tempest of Light. With Paraselene, you're paying that much mana and gaining some life on top.

#27. Primeval Light

Paying 4 mana at sorcery speed for Primeval Light isn’t the dream, but it's at least a one-sided effect.

#26. Back to Nature + Spring Cleaning

Not only is Spring Cleaning an instant, but it can be a one-sided board wipe. It's a little better than Back to Nature.

#25. Fracturing Gust

At instant speed, you can destroy all artifacts and enchantments with Fracturing Gust, as well as gain a lot of life with this card. This saw some play in formats like Standard and Modern before better or cheaper alternatives existed. It’s expensive as a sweeper these days, so if you want to play this card, you’d better have some lifegain incentives as well.

#24. Cleansing Meditation

Cleansing Meditation can be the best card on this list if your enchantments all cantrip, or if you have enchantress synergies. That said, this card forces deck-building constraints, and you need threshold for it to excel, or else you’re in Tranquility tier.

#23. Kalemne’s Captain

Kalemne's Captain requires a hefty investment to be a true enchantment wrath effect, but at least you’ll get an 8/8. Its monstrosity effect is powerful, as it exiles rather than destroys. I’d say play it if you need an extra giant with a versatile effect in a typal EDH deck.

#22. Nevinyrral, Urborg Tyrant

Nevinyrral, Urborg Tyrant strongly synergizes with its own disk, as you can use the disk to destroy creatures, cast it right after, and make some zombie tokens. For enchantment destruction, you'll need to have a way to sacrifice it. The enchantment players aren’t firing a removal spell at this creature, that’s for sure.

#21. Klauth's Will

An X-spell like Klauth's Will can sometimes clear the entire board of enchantments (and artifacts), though you'll sometimes only have the mana available to surgically pick off a couple. That means it's not a board wipe in the traditional sense, though it'll function as one often enough, while providing other utility as a creature sweeper.

#20. Nevinyrral’s Disk

Nevinyrral's Disk is the classic sweeper from the ‘90s. The worst thing about this card is that, as it enters tapped, you can’t trick players into overcommitting, but at the same time, it slows the game down just by being on the battlefield. For EDH purposes, what matters most is that it’s a colorless board wipe, and very fitting for Grixis-color commanders () since most of this list is Selesnya cards ().

#19. Dismantling Wave

Dismantling Wave can be a “simple” three-for-one in your typical Commander game for just 3 mana. Of course, you can destroy everything for 8 mana and draw a card, but getting just those three enchantments can be a good mana investment and a semi-board wipe.

#18. Cataclysm

We’ve got some Cataclysm variants in this list, so let’s begin with the original. When you cast this card, each player will sacrifice down to their best enchantment, which conveniently gets around indestructible/hexproof.

#17. Mythos of Snapdax + Tragic Arrogance

Mythos of Snapdax is a little 3-color twist on Cataclysm, where you can choose the cards that stay and the cards to be sacrificed when paying the full Mardu () cost, circling around the obvious downside. Tragic Arrogance offers the same effect for 1 mana more, but has a mono-white color identity, so it's played way more often.

#16. Cataclysmic Gearhulk

Cataclysmic Gearhulk is the “best” Cataclysm since you can bounce it and reanimate it. Since it's an artifact creature, you have some flexibility in what you can keep around, too.

#15. Rampage of the Clans

At instant speed, Rampage of the Clans is a massive Beast Within for artifacts and enchantments. It’s an interesting response before a wrath effect. You don’t even care if you lose some of your cards, as they’ll be upgraded. This is a much more proactive take on this type of card, since you'll want to load up on artifact tokens or Treasure/Food, destroy them all, and hit hard the next turn.

#14. Fade from History

Besides the lovely art, Fade from History is a very powerful way to reduce all enchantments down to just a couple of 2/2s. You’ll play it in Commander decks that care about bears or 2/2 creatures (Ayula, Queen Among Bears, Duskana, the Rage Mother), though it's pretty easy to slot into most green decks with low artifact/enchantment counts.

#13. Akroma’s Vengeance

Akroma's Vengeance destroys almost everything you want, or you can draw a card by cycling it. Six mana is expensive, but it’s something you can easily maindeck in casual EDH.

#12. Wave of Vitriol

If you want to ruin a 5-color deck's day, give Wave of Vitriol a shot. It completely nerfs greedy mana bases while also brushing away all artifacts and enchantments in play. That's a lot of coverage, so you want to plan for it yourself by running fewer nonbasics, and ideally few artifacts or enchantments.

#11. Cease // Desist

Cease // Desist essentially has a graveyard-hating cycling ability, which keeps it from ever being dead, and the right half is situationally very powerful. It also has a mana value of 8 for any of the more demanding collect evidence cards.

#10. Cleansing Nova

Cleansing Nova is a flexible wrath, with the main mode getting creatures but also getting a nice second mode. It’s from a time when 5-mana wraths weren’t so abundant, too. That said, in some metagames where players go crazy with stuff like Hallowed Haunting or Simulacrum Synthesizer, it’s nice to have a good backup plan.

#9. Death Begets Life

Eight mana's a hefty asking price for a sweeper, but Death Begets Life deals with two permanents types and draws a card for each one destroyed this way. Being a 3-color card this high up the curve restricts its playability, but the juice is worth the squeeze in decks that can support it.

#8. Everything Comes to Dust

Everything Comes to Dust is a very nice sweeper for token decks or typal decks, considering that you can use your mass of creatures to convoke this spell, protect most of your creatures, and exile a lot of stuff for potentially very cheap. Think of it as a one-sided creature sweeper with extra benefits.

#7. Bane of Progress

Bane of Progress is a very interesting way to mix in a threat and an enchantment board wipe. It’s probably going to be a 7/7 or 8/8 in an average EDH pod, and much bigger if you actually line it up against an artifact/enchantment player.

#6. Season of Gathering

Season of Gathering has many different useful modes, with one of them being our titular “destroy all enchantments”. You can use it to buff your cards, trigger your +1/+1 counters synergies, draw a chunk of cards, and if needed, you can blast some enchantments.

#5. Wrath of the Skies

Wrath of the Skies has proven itself valuable in Constructed formats, even in decks that care nothing about generating energy. The main appeal here is that this can wipe a full board of 1-mana permanents, or even 0-cost ones like artifact tokens and Urza's Saga, which makes it a strong metagame option in some of the more unfair Constructed formats. Being able to scale it up to more expensive permanents is a welcome bonus, but this is primarily played for X=0 or X=1.

#4. Merciless Eviction

A little worse than Farewell, but Merciless Eviction can get rid of the types of cards you want, or the ones that give you the best possible outcome. It’s also one of the few sweepers that can deal with planeswalkers.

#3. Austere Command

Before Farewell, there was Austere Command. This card is very powerful and versatile as a modal sweeper, and many times, you’ll wreck opposing boards while keeping yours intact. You’re playing small creatures and artifacts? Better get rid of their enchantments and big guys. It's played in token decks and ones that want to get rid of tokens alike.

#2. Heliod's Intervention

Some of the cards rank high on this list because of the extra utility they provide in addition to popping enchantments. Heliod's Intervention gets there entirely for that purpose, though yes, it handles artifacts too, and has a rarely-used lifegain mode if you need it. This card is the single greatest reason long-time staples like Return to Dust and Crush Contraband dropped off in Commander.

#1. Farewell

Farewell is one of the best and most flexible board wipes ever. For one, you exile stuff you choose, and almost every deck takes a huge hit from this card, except maybe superfriends decks and fast aggro, which can get under it. Most people think this card is unfair, especially in EDH, where it’s almost impossible to play around it.

Best Enchantment Board Wipe Payoffs

Enchantment board wipes can be exploited by your deck in certain ways, especially if you line everything up so you're profiting from all the enchantment destruction that’s going on.

Sometimes you’ll benefit by playing cards like Eiganjo Dynastorian or Brilliant Restoration. This is especially true if you have enchantments that work as removal or as cantrips (Spirited Companion, Omen of the Sea). Dance of the Manse is also a strong follow-up to an enchantment board wipe.

A commander like Bello, Bard of the Brambles makes your non-aura enchantments with mana value 4 or greater indestructible, whereas Muldrotha, the Gravetide usually doesn’t care about having its enchantments destroyed since it can cast at least one from the graveyard each turn.

Cards like Enchanted Evening convert all permanents into enchantments, so a simple 2-mana Back to Nature resets the board.

Starfield of Nyx and Ghen, Arcanum Weaver can reanimate your lost enchantments, and even serve as wincons for a board full of them.

Primarily designed to work with role tokens from Wilds of Eldraine, cards like Warehouse Tabby and Ashiok's Reaper track enchantments going to the graveyard, so you could trigger these en masse with an enchantment sweeper. Neva, Stalked by Nightmares would grow fairly large in this exchange, and also provides from recursion for those cards.

Wrap Up

Back to Nature | Illustration by Howard Lyon

MTG has a lot of ways to deal with enchantments. The thing is, flexible cards like Farewell or cards that deal with all nonland permanents let you cover necessary enchantment removal without running potential duds in certain match-ups. Though depending on the meta, or depending on that friend of yours that loves enchantment prison decks, you might need a laser-focused answer like a Back to Nature in the sideboard.

What are your favorite ways to deal with enchantments? Any that still fly under the radar? Let me know in the comments section below, or over on the Draftsim Discord. And check out The Daily Upkeep newsletter to stay up to date on all the latest MTG news.

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