Cyclonic Rift card art

Cyclonic Rift

Instant MV 2

Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.

What it does

Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand.

Overload 6 (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Combos with Cyclonic Rift

Lines this card is part of — what it needs alongside it, and what the two of them do. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.

Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.

Rulings

4 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2024-01-12

    To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost you're paying (such as an overload cost), add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. The mana value of the spell remains unchanged, no matter what the total cost to cast it was.

  • 2024-01-12

    Because a spell with overload doesn't target when its overload cost is paid, it may affect permanents with hexproof or with protection from the appropriate color.

  • 2024-01-12

    If you are instructed to cast a spell with overload "without paying its mana cost," you can't choose to pay its overload cost instead.

  • 2024-01-12

    If you don't pay the overload cost of a spell with overload, that spell will have a single target. If you pay the overload cost, the spell won't have any targets.

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Cyclonic Rift, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 22
Games played 7
Win rate 28.6%
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Colors it shows up in

  • Izzet 3 decks
  • Esper 2 decks
  • Mono-Blue 1 deck
  • Dimir 1 deck
  • Sultai 1 deck
  • Simic 1 deck
  • Temur 1 deck
  • Azorius 1 deck
  • Five-Color 1 deck
  • Jeskai 1 deck

Every version of Cyclonic Rift

15 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly — a printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall genuinely publishes none for some of them.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Cyclonic Rift — a name search across every version, for the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.

Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only — no individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.