Force of Despair card art

Force of Despair

Instant MV 3

Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.

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What it does

If it's not your turn, you may exile a black card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.

Destroy all creatures that entered this turn.

Rulings

One official ruling, as Wizards published it.

  • 2019-06-14

    Force of Despair destroys all permanents that entered the battlefield this turn and are currently creatures. It doesn’t matter whether they were creatures as they entered the battlefield.

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

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Force of Despair, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 2
Games played 0
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games — not enough to publish a rate yet.
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Sahir, Visitor in Darkness 1 0 —
Tinybones, Trinket Thief 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Mono-Black 2 decks

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.