Commander: Top 10 Colorless Spot Removals for Your Deck!

Have you ever taken a closer look at colorless cards? Like, really looked at them, beyond just mana rocks like Sol Ring and Arcane Signet, or some classic Commander equipment, like Lightning Greaves and Swiftfoot Boots. There are many colorless spells which can support your deck in practically any situation.

We've already discussed colorless card draw, so now it's time to discuss colorless spot removals!

Even if you're not playing a colorless Commander deck, the cards in this list can help you deal with any enemy threat that comes up during your matches.

Before we go into our list, check out below how we selected these cards.

To select these cards, we analyzed how much each spell costs, their speed, versatility, and how popular they are in EDHRec (after all, the community is always right).

Colorless removals are less versatile compared to the other removals we've already discussed (if you haven't seen them yet, click here to see our best white spot removals, best black spot removals, best green spot removals, best red spot removals, and best blue spot removals). However, they're still quite valuable. Some cards in this list will probably surprise you.

In general, most of the cards below are permanents that serve as removals, but they also create value by staying on your board.

Without further do, let's see the best colorless spot removals for your deck!

10. Meteor Golem

This 3/3 Golem may be expensive, but, considering there are many strategies centered around Reanimate, Blinks, or just plain copies, it is much better than it seems.

When Meteor Golem enters the battlefield, you may pick a target non-land permanent and destroy it. This creature resolves enchantments, equipment, mana rocks, creatures, and even battles!

9. Bumbleflower's Sharepot

Known as the powerful commander in the Bant Bloomburrow precon, Ms. Bumbleflower's name is also featured in this much less generous artifact.

Bumbleflower's Sharepot enters the battlefield and gives you a Food token. If you activate it as a sorcery, you may pay five mana and use its ability to sacrifice it and destroy any non-land permanent in your way.

8. Brittle Effigy

Brittle Effigy, besides cheap, exiles a target creature.

As you can activate this effect at instant speed, you can save four mana and exile something as an answer to one of your opponent's plays or attacks.

7. Spine of Ish Sah

Just like Meteor Golem, Spine of Ish Sah is a bit expensive, but its effect is a bit different and deserved a few more points in this ranking of the best colorless spot removals (and we're not talking about how it returns to your hand if you put it in a graveyard).

What made Spine of Ish Sah deserve our seventh spot is its text: this card destroys any target permanent. This way, you'll hardly have any issues when you try to get rid of anything problematic in your matches.

In decks that focus on artifacts, reducing its cost is easy. Furthermore, cards like Krark-Clan Ironworks are useful as a sacrifice source to make Spine of Ish Sah return to your hand.

6. Invasion of Ravnica

Invasion of Ravnica is the first battle that showed up in one of our rankings! Let's hear a round of applause!

With this card, you may exile an enemy's non-land permanent, as long as it isn't exactly two colors. So it removes monocolored cards or cards with three or more colors, which works really well for many commanders.

During combat, you can attack your battle to win it and transform it. When it is transformed, this battle becomes Guildpact Paragon, a construct that speeds up your game plan and interacts with spells that are exactly two colors.

5. Duplicant

Duplicant exiles non-token creatures. Then, this creature takes on the power and toughness, besides all the types of the last creature we exiled with it.

Just like Meteor Golem, this card is much better when you use it in a deck that boosts ETB effects, like Reanimate, Blink, and copy decks.

4. Introduction to Annihilation

Introduction to Annihilation is a completely colorless spell that fits into any deck really well. It also goes really well with any spells that discount costs, like Goblin Electromancer and Primal Amulet. Depending on which of these cards you have in play, you can even cast it for free.

With Introduction to Annihilation, you get to exile a non-land permanent and, in exchange, you just let that card's controller draw another card. It is quite a treat, don't you think?

3. Devourer of Destiny

To open our top 3 best colorless spot removals, we have Devourer of Destiny!

You can reveal this 6/6 Eldrazi if it is in your starting hand. If you do, at the beginning of your first upkeep, you may look at the top four cards in your deck, put one of them at the top, and exile the rest.

When you cast it, you'll permanently exile a target that is one or more colors. Then, this giant Eldrazi stays on your board to protect your life and/or attack your opponents.

2. Cityscape Leveler

Cityscape Leveler didn't get first place in this ranking, but it is certainly the one that hurts the most out of all of them.

This construct destroys a target non-land permanent when you cast it and whenever you attack with it. Furthermore, it is an 8/8 with trample and Unearth, a mechanic that lets you "attack" with it one last time before it actually dies (its text states that you can only activate this ability while this card is in the graveyard, and only as a sorcery. It gets haste, and is exiled at the next end step, or when it would leave the board).

So, even if your opponent tries to block this gigantic creature, they'll still probably lose an important permanent.

In exchange, Cityscape Leveler creates a tapped Powerstone token on their board.

1. Null Elemental Blast

Our first place is the instant Null Elemental Blast!

This spell is a counter for multicolored spells, but the effect we're interested in is the one that destroys any target multicolor permanent for just one colorless mana.

It is quite cheap and, if your deck includes many colorless spells, you'll probably have a mana rock or lands that give you the mana you need to cast this spell.

This is the end of our top 10 best colorless spot removals!

So far, this article was the one that surprised me the most. Colorless removals usually don't seem great, but, ultimately, they're interesting options that are helpful in any Commander deck.

So, if you know anyone who needs an upgrade and is looking for removals, don't think twice before sending them this article.

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