Sundering Archaic
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
What it does
Converge — When this creature enters, exile target nonland permanent an opponent controls with mana value less than or equal to the number of colors of mana spent to cast this creature.
2: Put target card from a graveyard on the bottom of its owner's library.
Combos with Sundering Archaic
The lines this card is part of, what it needs alongside it, and what the cards do together. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.
- Verdant Succession Ashnod's Altar Infinite
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite death triggers
- River Song Capture of Jingzhou Infinite
- Infinite turns
- Lock
- Skip your draw steps
- Grenzo, Dungeon Warden Orcish Bowmasters Ashnod's Altar Infinite
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite damage
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Grenzo, Dungeon Warden Threefold Thunderhulk Ashnod's Altar Infinite
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite colorless mana
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Tormod, the Desecrator Extractor Demon Ashnod's Altar Infinite
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite mill
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite self-mill
- Near-infinite colorless mana
- Quintorius, Field Historian Extractor Demon Ashnod's Altar Infinite
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite mill
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite self-mill
- Near-infinite colorless mana
- Wretched Throng Rooftop Storm Ashnod's Altar Infinite
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite storm count
- Teval, the Balanced Scale Extractor Demon Ashnod's Altar Infinite
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite mill
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite self-mill
- Near-infinite colorless mana
Showing the 8 shortest and most explosive. This card appears in more than these. Follow any of them through to Commander Spellbook to browse the rest.
Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.
Rulings
5 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2026-03-20
Unless a spell or ability allows you to, you can't choose to pay more mana for a spell with a converge ability just to spend more colors of mana. Likewise, if a spell or ability reduces the amount of mana it costs you to cast a spell with converge, you can't ignore that cost reduction in order to spend more colors of mana.
- 2026-03-20
If a spell with a converge ability is copied, no mana was spent to cast the copy, so the number of colors of mana spent to cast the spell will be zero. The number of colors spent to cast the original spell is not copied.
- 2026-03-20
The maximum number of colors of mana you can spend to cast a spell is five. Colorless is not a color. Note that the cost of a spell with converge may limit how many colors of mana you can spend.
- 2026-03-20
If you cast a spell with converge without spending any mana to cast it (perhaps because an effect allowed you to cast it without paying its mana cost), then the number of colors spent to cast it will be zero.
- 2026-03-20
If there are any alternative or additional costs to cast a spell with a converge ability, the colors of mana spent to pay those costs will count.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Sundering Archaic, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vraska, the Cutting Glare | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Golgari 1 deck
Sundering Archaic price history
The Secrets of Strixhaven #3 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly. Click any version below to chart its price.
Every recorded price change
| Date | Non-foil | Foil |
|---|---|---|
| Nov 11, 2026 | $0.13 | $0.16 |
| Nov 7, 2026 | $0.13 | $0.16 |
| Nov 2, 2026 | $0.13 | $0.15 |
| Oct 30, 2026 | $0.14 | $0.15 |
| Oct 27, 2026 | $0.13 | $0.15 |
| Oct 16, 2026 | $0.13 | $0.17 |
| Oct 15, 2026 | $0.14 | $0.17 |
| Oct 13, 2026 | $0.14 | $0.19 |
| Oct 11, 2026 | $0.12 | $0.19 |
| Oct 9, 2026 | $0.12 | $0.20 |
| Oct 8, 2026 | $0.11 | $0.20 |
| Oct 7, 2026 | $0.10 | $0.20 |
| Oct 6, 2026 | $0.11 | $0.20 |
| Oct 5, 2026 | $0.13 | $0.20 |
| Oct 4, 2026 | $0.16 | $0.20 |
| Sep 30, 2026 | $0.18 | $0.20 |
| Sep 29, 2026 | $0.19 | $0.22 |
| Sep 28, 2026 | $0.18 | $0.22 |
A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.
Every version of Sundering Archaic
1 printing, 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 publishes none for some of them.
Secrets of Strixhaven
- Normal
- $0.13
- Foil
- $0.16
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Sundering Archaic. It runs a name search across every version, which covers 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.
