Farewell

The debate

Farewell got tagged as a Game Changer, which by the letter of the bracket rules should push it toward Bracket 4. In practice, plenty of playgroups wave it into lower brackets anyway because six mana feels too slow to be oppressive, and that gap between the label and the table ruling is where the real debate lives.

What it does

For six mana you choose one or more categories and exile everything in them: all artifacts, all creatures, all enchantments, all graveyards. No death triggers, no recursion off the bin, just gone.

Where it shines

Control shells and any deck that wants a true reset button without handing the opponent's recursion package a free lunch. It's the answer for tables full of aristocrats and reanimator decks that laugh at destroy-based wipes.

Plays well with

• Austere Command Austere Command does the same modal, choose-your-categories wipe, just with destroy instead of exile, so Farewell has effectively replaced it as the upgrade.
• Merciless Eviction Merciless Eviction fills the same modal-exile-wipe role and now has to compete directly with the strictly stronger Farewell for a deck slot.
• Blasphemous Act If your Blasphemous Act gets countered or fizzles as a last-ditch wipe, Farewell is the backup plan that still exiles the whole board with no death triggers to punish you.

The catch

Six mana with no immediate board impact of your own means you can fall behind on tempo if you tap out and the table just rebuilds through your exiled draw step.

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