Planetary Annihilation

Sorcery

Each player chooses six lands they control, then sacrifices the rest. This deals 6 damage to each creature.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Freeform	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (4)

OberstHati on Bracket 3 Hearthhull

1 month ago

Thank You legendofa, that‘s why I only play this 1 Landwipe, Most of the time I will be the player with the Most Lands, so I see the Card as a sac Outlet with upsides, not mass Land denial. A recurring Strip Mine is more of a problem in this Deck with a few means to play extra Lands and from the Graveyard. I even checked for it at scryfall, https://scryfall.com/search?as=gridℴ=name&page=2&q=otag%3Amass-land-denial&unique=cards All the fun landdestruction is in the Sideboard. And the Planetary Annihilation is a Card from the worldshaper-Precon dnthymamaiso no way that pushes a Deck to bracket 4, as stated before: in the majority of Games I will be the one sacrifying the Most Lands.

legendofa on Bracket 3 Hearthhull

1 month ago

dnthymamai If I may step in for a second, I would say you're not wrong by the letter of the rule. But I believe the bracket system is there to help communicate deck construction and intended play style, not be a rigid scaffold, and the article you linked and its followup have several quotes that support that. Planetary Annihilation is one of the softest mass land destruction cards in the game, and I believe the intent of the guideline is to prevent plays like spamming Armageddon effects, or casting Apocalypse without a clear way to win the game. As you mention, Planetary Annihilation shuts down some strategies some of the time, while harder MLD shuts down almost all strategies almost all of the time, which is what I think the bracket restriction is designed to prevent. So speaking personally, I would not be upset to see Planetary Annihilation in an otherwise solidly Bracket 3 deck, especially if it was mentioned at the start of the game.

dnthymamai on Bracket 3 Hearthhull

1 month ago

https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/introducing-commander-brackets-beta

Planetary Annihilation can be a bracket four card vs some of your opponents.

and as it says in the above article: "These cards regularly destroy, [...] change what mana is produced by four or more lands..." (that also means that Blood Moon is also bracket 4, as some people are saying it's not, but I digress...)

Now, what if one of your opponents has a ramp deck? Planetary Annihilation heavily punishes ramp and landfall strategies, and if someone would say "but it still leaves them with six lands", that is an invalid argument. Because you still destroyed (made them sacrifice, actually, but everywhere now they also say "damage" when a card clearly says lose life, so...) 4 of their lands. Correct?

While some players are playing permanents and impacting the board and going to win in the next 2-3 turns, others are still preparing their -everywhere legal- landfall strategies, and you deny them their four lands (they usually have 10 or even more lands when others have only 6-8, thus, you deny someone of 4 of their lands).

UltimateRoxas40 on The Worldseed: Exogenesis [Grave Land Primer]

10 months ago

DatboiD Thanks for taking a look! I actually don't own a Strip Mine, but I do have a Wasteland that I could probably fit in. Yeah, I wanted this deck to prioritize land destruction on just my end, haha. I considered running some symmetrical land destruction effects, such as Wildfire or Planetary Annihilation, but they didn't feel right when I tested them out.

I'll keep an eye out for your Hearthhull, the Worldseed deck! This is such a fun commander, and it has so many different directions that it can go.