Eradicate

Sorcery, 2BB (4)

Exile target nonblack creature. Search its controller's graveyard, hand, and library for all cards with the same name as that creature and exile them. Then that player shuffles his or her library.

Illus. Kev Walker

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• 10/4/2004: A face down creature has no name, so you search for cards that also have no name. Since all cards in the graveyard, hand, and library have names, this is an unmeetable condition and the spell won't do anything other than exile the targeted creature.
• 10/4/2004: Use the name of the card as it leaves the battlefield.
• 10/4/2004: If a copy card is targeted by this effect, you get to look for another copy of the card it is copying. This is because a copy card actually takes on the name and initial characteristics of what it copies.
• 10/4/2004: Does not exile other cards of the same name that are on the battlefield. Just from the graveyard, hand, and library.
• 2/1/2005: If you manage to turn a land (such as a Forest or Stalking Stones) into a creature, you can indeed use this effect on that basic land type. Eradicate's exile effect only looks for cards by name, not type.
• 2/1/2005: The copies must be found if they are in publicly viewable zones. Finding copies while searching private zones is optional.

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern