---
name: "Expunge"
mana_cost: "{2}{B}"
cmc: 3
type_line: "Instant"
colors: []
color_identity: ["B"]
keywords: ["Cycling"]
set: "VMA"
set_name: "Vintage Masters"
collector_number: "118"
rarity: "common"
artist: "Christopher Moeller"
oracle_id: "4b1fee86-360d-41d8-9238-eff216376732"
canonical_url: "https://avascry.com/printing/expunge-vma"
legalities:
  commander: "legal"
  standard: "not_legal"
  modern: "not_legal"
  pioneer: "not_legal"
  legacy: "legal"
  vintage: "legal"
  pauper: "legal"
  penny: "legal"
---

# Expunge
- **Mana Cost:** `{2}{B}` (CMC: 3)
- **Type:** Instant
- **Keywords:** Cycling

## Oracle Text
Destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

## Top 4096-Dim Neural Synergies
1. [Annihilate](/printing/annihilate-ema.md) — Instant
2. [Dark Banishing](/printing/dark-banishing-tpr.md) — Instant
3. [Kill! Destroy!](/printing/kill-destroy-unh.md) — Instant
4. [Terror](/printing/terror-dmr.md) — Instant
5. [Purge](/printing/purge-td2.md) — Instant
6. [Terminate](/printing/terminate-msc.md) — Instant

## Printing Details
- **Set:** Vintage Masters (VMA) #118
- **Rarity:** Common
- **Artist:** Christopher Moeller

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

## Official Rulings
- *(2008-10-01)* Cycling is an activated ability. Effects that interact with activated abilities (such as Stifle or Rings of Brighthearth) will interact with cycling. Effects that interact with spells (such as Remove Soul or Faerie Tauntings) will not.