slp
sld
mh1
Force of Despair 
Instant
Oracle Text
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.
Format Legality
ModernLegacyVintageDuel Commander
Competitive Play by Format
Top 8 decklists that played Force of Despair, by format.
| Format | Decks 30d | Avg 30d | Decks 12mo | Avg 12mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Modern | 11 | 1.8 | 66 | 2.1 |
| Duel Commander | 0 | 0 | 40 | 1 |
| Legacy | 1 | 1 | 8 | 1.6 |
Details
- Set
- Secret Lair Promo
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana value
- 3
- Collector #
- 29
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Recent Top-8 Decks Playing Force of Despair
6
Final: 6 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (6)
Sorceries (26)
- 1 Profane Tutor
- 1 Agonizing Remorse
- 1 Check for Traps
- 1 Collective Brutality
- 1 Demonic Tutor
- 1 Night's Whisper
- 1 Beseech the Mirror
- 1 Dead of Winter
- 1 Toxic Deluge
- 1 Damnation
- 1 Languish
- 1 Beseech the Queen
- 1 Unmask
- 1 Dark Petition
- 1 Bloodchief's Thirst
- 1 Dread Fugue
- 1 Duress
- 1 Innocent Blood
- 1 Inquisition of Kozilek
- 1 Insatiable Avarice
- 1 Thoughtseize
- 1 Cruelclaw's Heist
- 1 Hymn to Tourach
- 1 Sign in Blood
- 1 Sinkhole
- 1 Mind Twist
Instants (16)
Artifacts (6)
Lands (39)
Sideboard
3
Final: 3 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (6)
Sorceries (26)
- 1 Profane Tutor
- 1 Agonizing Remorse
- 1 Check for Traps
- 1 Collective Brutality
- 1 Demonic Tutor
- 1 Night's Whisper
- 1 Beseech the Mirror
- 1 Dead of Winter
- 1 Toxic Deluge
- 1 Damnation
- 1 Languish
- 1 Beseech the Queen
- 1 Unmask
- 1 Dark Petition
- 1 Bloodchief's Thirst
- 1 Dread Fugue
- 1 Duress
- 1 Innocent Blood
- 1 Inquisition of Kozilek
- 1 Insatiable Avarice
- 1 Thoughtseize
- 1 Cruelclaw's Heist
- 1 Hymn to Tourach
- 1 Sign in Blood
- 1 Sinkhole
- 1 Mind Twist
Instants (16)
Artifacts (6)
Lands (39)
Sideboard
6
Final: 6 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (6)
Sorceries (26)
- 1 Profane Tutor
- 1 Agonizing Remorse
- 1 Check for Traps
- 1 Collective Brutality
- 1 Demonic Tutor
- 1 Night's Whisper
- 1 Beseech the Mirror
- 1 Dead of Winter
- 1 Toxic Deluge
- 1 Damnation
- 1 Languish
- 1 Beseech the Queen
- 1 Unmask
- 1 Dark Petition
- 1 Bloodchief's Thirst
- 1 Dread Fugue
- 1 Duress
- 1 Innocent Blood
- 1 Inquisition of Kozilek
- 1 Insatiable Avarice
- 1 Thoughtseize
- 1 Cruelclaw's Heist
- 1 Hymn to Tourach
- 1 Sign in Blood
- 1 Sinkhole
- 1 Mind Twist
Instants (16)
Artifacts (6)
Lands (39)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (19)
- 1 Dragon's Rage Channeler
- 1 Laelia, the Blade Reforged
- 1 Emperor of Bones
- 1 Orcish Bowmasters
- 1 Tourach, Dread Cantor
- 1 Setzer, Wandering Gambler
- 1 Carnage Interpreter
- 1 Seasoned Pyromancer
- 1 Barrowgoyf
- 1 Graveyard Trespasser
- 1 Grief
- 1 Anje's Ravager
- 1 Broadside Bombardiers
- 1 Detective's Phoenix
- 1 Magus of the Moon
- 1 Tersa Lightshatter
- 1 Fury
- 1 Nethergoyf
- 1 Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger
Sorceries (13)
Instants (15)
Artifacts (12)
Lands (37)
- 1 Arena of Glory
- 1 Arid Mesa
- 1 Badlands
- 1 Barbarian Ring
- 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
- 1 Blazemire Verge
- 1 Blightstep Pathway
- 1 Blood Crypt
- 1 Bloodstained Mire
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Den of the Bugbear
- 1 Dragonskull Summit
- 1 Graven Cairns
- 1 Great Furnace
- 1 Haunted Ridge
- 1 Hive of the Eye Tyrant
- 1 Marsh Flats
- 1 Mount Doom
- 1 Mountain
- 1 Polluted Delta
- 1 Prismatic Vista
- 1 Raucous Theater
- 1 Scalding Tarn
- 1 Shinka, the Bloodsoaked Keep
- 1 Shizo, Death's Storehouse
- 2 Snow-Covered Swamp
- 1 Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance
- 1 Sulfurous Springs
- 2 Swamp
- 1 Tectonic Edge
- 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
- 1 Urza's Saga
- 1 Vault of Whispers
- 1 Verdant Catacombs
- 1 Wooded Foothills
Sideboard
2
Final: 2 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (6)
Sorceries (24)
- 1 Profane Tutor
- 1 Collective Brutality
- 1 Demonic Tutor
- 1 Night's Whisper
- 1 Beseech the Mirror
- 1 Dead of Winter
- 1 Toxic Deluge
- 1 Damnation
- 1 Languish
- 1 Beseech the Queen
- 1 Unmask
- 1 Dark Petition
- 1 Bloodchief's Thirst
- 1 Dread Fugue
- 1 Duress
- 1 Innocent Blood
- 1 Inquisition of Kozilek
- 1 Insatiable Avarice
- 1 Thoughtseize
- 1 Cruelclaw's Heist
- 1 Hymn to Tourach
- 1 Sign in Blood
- 1 Sinkhole
- 1 Mind Twist
Instants (18)
Artifacts (6)
Lands (39)
Sideboard
7
Final: 7 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (6)
Sorceries (24)
- 1 Profane Tutor
- 1 Collective Brutality
- 1 Demonic Tutor
- 1 Night's Whisper
- 1 Beseech the Mirror
- 1 Dead of Winter
- 1 Toxic Deluge
- 1 Damnation
- 1 Languish
- 1 Beseech the Queen
- 1 Unmask
- 1 Dark Petition
- 1 Bloodchief's Thirst
- 1 Dread Fugue
- 1 Duress
- 1 Innocent Blood
- 1 Inquisition of Kozilek
- 1 Insatiable Avarice
- 1 Thoughtseize
- 1 Cruelclaw's Heist
- 1 Hymn to Tourach
- 1 Sign in Blood
- 1 Sinkhole
- 1 Mind Twist
Instants (18)
Artifacts (6)
Lands (39)
Sideboard
7
Final: 7 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (6)
Sorceries (24)
- 1 Profane Tutor
- 1 Collective Brutality
- 1 Demonic Tutor
- 1 Night's Whisper
- 1 Beseech the Mirror
- 1 Dead of Winter
- 1 Toxic Deluge
- 1 Damnation
- 1 Languish
- 1 Beseech the Queen
- 1 Unmask
- 1 Dark Petition
- 1 Bloodchief's Thirst
- 1 Dread Fugue
- 1 Duress
- 1 Innocent Blood
- 1 Inquisition of Kozilek
- 1 Insatiable Avarice
- 1 Thoughtseize
- 1 Cruelclaw's Heist
- 1 Hymn to Tourach
- 1 Sign in Blood
- 1 Sinkhole
- 1 Mind Twist
Instants (18)
Artifacts (6)
Lands (39)
Sideboard
1
Final: 1 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (6)
Sorceries (24)
- 1 Profane Tutor
- 1 Collective Brutality
- 1 Demonic Tutor
- 1 Night's Whisper
- 1 Beseech the Mirror
- 1 Dead of Winter
- 1 Toxic Deluge
- 1 Damnation
- 1 Languish
- 1 Beseech the Queen
- 1 Unmask
- 1 Dark Petition
- 1 Bloodchief's Thirst
- 1 Dread Fugue
- 1 Duress
- 1 Innocent Blood
- 1 Inquisition of Kozilek
- 1 Insatiable Avarice
- 1 Thoughtseize
- 1 Cruelclaw's Heist
- 1 Hymn to Tourach
- 1 Sign in Blood
- 1 Sinkhole
- 1 Mind Twist
Instants (18)
Artifacts (6)
Lands (39)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (36)
Sorceries (3)
Lands (16)
Sideboard
1
Final: 1 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (6)
Sorceries (24)
- 1 Profane Tutor
- 1 Collective Brutality
- 1 Demonic Tutor
- 1 Night's Whisper
- 1 Beseech the Mirror
- 1 Dead of Winter
- 1 Toxic Deluge
- 1 Damnation
- 1 Languish
- 1 Beseech the Queen
- 1 Unmask
- 1 Dark Petition
- 1 Bloodchief's Thirst
- 1 Dread Fugue
- 1 Duress
- 1 Innocent Blood
- 1 Inquisition of Kozilek
- 1 Insatiable Avarice
- 1 Thoughtseize
- 1 Cruelclaw's Heist
- 1 Hymn to Tourach
- 1 Sign in Blood
- 1 Sinkhole
- 1 Mind Twist
Instants (18)
- 1 Go for the Throat
- 1 Long Goodbye
- 1 Sheoldred's Edict
- 1 Force of Despair
- 1 Fell the Profane
- 1 Spinning Darkness
- 1 Soul Spike
- 1 Cling to Dust
- 1 Cut Down
- 1 Dark Ritual
- 1 Defile
- 1 Fatal Push
- 1 Gollum's Bite
- 1 Consuming Corruption
- 1 Word of Command
- 1 Erebos's Intervention
- 1 March of Wretched Sorrow
- 1 Sickening Shoal
Artifacts (6)
Lands (39)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (18)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (14)
Artifacts (3)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (15)
Sideboard
3
Final: 3 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (9)
Sorceries (24)
- 1 Profane Tutor
- 1 Collective Brutality
- 1 Demonic Tutor
- 1 Night's Whisper
- 1 Invoke Despair
- 1 Dead of Winter
- 1 Toxic Deluge
- 1 Damnation
- 1 Languish
- 1 Beseech the Queen
- 1 Unmask
- 1 Dark Petition
- 1 Bloodchief's Thirst
- 1 Dread Fugue
- 1 Duress
- 1 Innocent Blood
- 1 Inquisition of Kozilek
- 1 Insatiable Avarice
- 1 Thoughtseize
- 1 Cruelclaw's Heist
- 1 Hymn to Tourach
- 1 Sign in Blood
- 1 Sinkhole
- 1 Mind Twist
Instants (16)
Artifacts (6)
Lands (39)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (9)
Sorceries (23)
- 1 Profane Tutor
- 1 Collective Brutality
- 1 Demonic Tutor
- 1 Night's Whisper
- 1 Dead of Winter
- 1 Toxic Deluge
- 1 Damnation
- 1 Beseech the Queen
- 1 Unmask
- 1 Dark Petition
- 1 Bloodchief's Thirst
- 1 Dread Fugue
- 1 Dreams of Steel and Oil
- 1 Duress
- 1 Innocent Blood
- 1 Inquisition of Kozilek
- 1 Insatiable Avarice
- 1 Thoughtseize
- 1 Cruelclaw's Heist
- 1 Hymn to Tourach
- 1 Sign in Blood
- 1 Sinkhole
- 1 Mind Twist
Instants (15)
Artifacts (5)
Enchantments (6)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (40)
Sideboard
2
Final: 2 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (9)
Sorceries (23)
- 1 Profane Tutor
- 1 Collective Brutality
- 1 Demonic Tutor
- 1 Night's Whisper
- 1 Dead of Winter
- 1 Toxic Deluge
- 1 Damnation
- 1 Beseech the Queen
- 1 Unmask
- 1 Dark Petition
- 1 Bloodchief's Thirst
- 1 Dread Fugue
- 1 Dreams of Steel and Oil
- 1 Duress
- 1 Innocent Blood
- 1 Inquisition of Kozilek
- 1 Insatiable Avarice
- 1 Thoughtseize
- 1 Cruelclaw's Heist
- 1 Hymn to Tourach
- 1 Sign in Blood
- 1 Sinkhole
- 1 Mind Twist
Instants (15)
Artifacts (5)
Enchantments (6)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (40)
Sideboard
5
Final: 5 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (9)
Sorceries (24)
- 1 Profane Tutor
- 1 Collective Brutality
- 1 Demonic Tutor
- 1 Night's Whisper
- 1 Invoke Despair
- 1 Dead of Winter
- 1 Toxic Deluge
- 1 Damnation
- 1 Languish
- 1 Beseech the Queen
- 1 Unmask
- 1 Dark Petition
- 1 Bloodchief's Thirst
- 1 Dread Fugue
- 1 Duress
- 1 Innocent Blood
- 1 Inquisition of Kozilek
- 1 Insatiable Avarice
- 1 Thoughtseize
- 1 Cruelclaw's Heist
- 1 Hymn to Tourach
- 1 Sign in Blood
- 1 Sinkhole
- 1 Mind Twist
Instants (16)
Artifacts (6)
Lands (39)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (19)
- 1 Caustic Bronco
- 1 Dark Confidant
- 1 Deep-Cavern Bat
- 1 Emperor of Bones
- 1 Orcish Bowmasters
- 1 Tourach, Dread Cantor
- 1 Emrakul, the Promised End
- 1 Barrowgoyf
- 1 Graveyard Trespasser
- 1 Lord Skitter, Sewer King
- 1 Opposition Agent
- 1 Preacher of the Schism
- 1 Unstoppable Slasher
- 1 Grief
- 1 Sheoldred
- 1 Troll of Khazad-dûm
- 1 Evolved Sleeper
- 1 Nethergoyf
- 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
Sorceries (13)
Instants (16)
Artifacts (8)
Enchantments (3)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (39)
- 1 Bloodstained Mire
- 1 Bojuka Bog
- 1 Cabal Coffers
- 1 Cabal Stronghold
- 1 Hive of the Eye Tyrant
- 1 Marsh Flats
- 1 Polluted Delta
- 1 Prismatic Vista
- 11 Snow-Covered Swamp
- 8 Snow-Covered Swamp
- 6 Snow-Covered Swamp
- 1 Snow-Covered Swamp
- 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
- 1 Urza's Cave
- 1 Urza's Saga
- 1 Verdant Catacombs
- 1 War Room
Sideboard
3
Final: 3 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (9)
Sorceries (23)
- 1 Profane Tutor
- 1 Collective Brutality
- 1 Demonic Tutor
- 1 Night's Whisper
- 1 Dead of Winter
- 1 Toxic Deluge
- 1 Damnation
- 1 Beseech the Queen
- 1 Unmask
- 1 Dark Petition
- 1 Bloodchief's Thirst
- 1 Dread Fugue
- 1 Dreams of Steel and Oil
- 1 Duress
- 1 Innocent Blood
- 1 Inquisition of Kozilek
- 1 Insatiable Avarice
- 1 Thoughtseize
- 1 Cruelclaw's Heist
- 1 Hymn to Tourach
- 1 Sign in Blood
- 1 Sinkhole
- 1 Mind Twist
Instants (15)
Artifacts (5)
Enchantments (6)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (40)
Sideboard
7
Final: 7 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (9)
Sorceries (24)
- 1 Profane Tutor
- 1 Agonizing Remorse
- 1 Collective Brutality
- 1 Demonic Tutor
- 1 Night's Whisper
- 1 Dead of Winter
- 1 Toxic Deluge
- 1 Damnation
- 1 Languish
- 1 Beseech the Queen
- 1 Unmask
- 1 Dark Petition
- 1 Bloodchief's Thirst
- 1 Dread Fugue
- 1 Duress
- 1 Innocent Blood
- 1 Inquisition of Kozilek
- 1 Insatiable Avarice
- 1 Thoughtseize
- 1 Cruelclaw's Heist
- 1 Hymn to Tourach
- 1 Sign in Blood
- 1 Sinkhole
- 1 Mind Twist
Instants (15)
Artifacts (5)
Enchantments (5)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (40)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Sorceries (23)
- 1 Profane Tutor
- 1 Collective Brutality
- 1 Demonic Tutor
- 1 Night's Whisper
- 1 Grim Tutor
- 1 Beseech the Mirror
- 1 Invoke Despair
- 1 Dead of Winter
- 1 Toxic Deluge
- 1 Damnation
- 1 Beseech the Queen
- 1 Unmask
- 1 Dark Petition
- 1 Peer into the Abyss
- 1 Bloodchief's Thirst
- 1 Duress
- 1 Inquisition of Kozilek
- 1 Insatiable Avarice
- 1 Thoughtseize
- 1 Cruelclaw's Heist
- 1 Hymn to Tourach
- 1 Sign in Blood
- 1 Mind Twist
Instants (18)
Artifacts (7)
Enchantments (6)
Lands (39)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (7)
Sorceries (20)
- 1 Profane Tutor
- 1 Collective Brutality
- 1 Demonic Tutor
- 1 Night's Whisper
- 1 Invoke Despair
- 1 Dead of Winter
- 1 Toxic Deluge
- 1 Damnation
- 1 Beseech the Queen
- 1 Unmask
- 1 Dark Petition
- 1 Bloodchief's Thirst
- 1 Duress
- 1 Inquisition of Kozilek
- 1 Insatiable Avarice
- 1 Thoughtseize
- 1 Cruelclaw's Heist
- 1 Hymn to Tourach
- 1 Sign in Blood
- 1 Mind Twist
