---
name: "Devastating Mastery"
mana_cost: "{2}{W}{W}{W}{W}"
cmc: 6
type_line: "Sorcery"
colors: ["W"]
color_identity: ["W"]
keywords: []
set: "STX"
set_name: "Strixhaven: School of Mages"
collector_number: "14"
rarity: "rare"
artist: "Jake Murray"
oracle_id: "07bfb7d2-f171-4ce1-876a-f9fb5c7cd11a"
canonical_url: "https://avascry.com/printing/devastating-mastery-stx"
legalities:
  commander: "legal"
  standard: "not_legal"
  modern: "legal"
  pioneer: "legal"
  legacy: "legal"
  vintage: "legal"
  pauper: "not_legal"
  penny: "legal"
---

# Devastating Mastery
- **Mana Cost:** `{2}{W}{W}{W}{W}` (CMC: 6)
- **Type:** Sorcery

## Oracle Text
You may pay {2}{W}{W} rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
If the {2}{W}{W} cost was paid, an opponent chooses up to two nonland permanents they control and returns them to their owner's hand.
Destroy all nonland permanents.

## Top 4096-Dim Neural Synergies
1. [Planar Cleansing](/printing/planar-cleansing-m10.md) — Sorcery
2. [Soulscour](/printing/soulscour-dst.md) — Sorcery
3. [Ruinous Ultimatum](/printing/ruinous-ultimatum-iko.md) — Sorcery
4. [Devastation Tide](/printing/devastation-tide-avr.md) — Sorcery
5. [Hour of Revelation](/printing/hour-of-revelation-akr.md) — Sorcery
6. [Worldpurge](/printing/worldpurge-shm.md) — Sorcery

## Printing Details
- **Set:** Strixhaven: School of Mages (STX) #14
- **Rarity:** Rare
- **Artist:** Jake Murray
- **Total Printings:** 20 across all historical editions

## Format Legalities
Commander: `legal` | Standard: `not_legal` | Modern: `legal` | Pioneer: `legal` | Legacy: `legal` | Vintage: `legal` | Pauper: `not_legal` | Penny: `legal`