Cleansing Meditation is one of those cards players keep asking about. Here is, in plain words, what its official text says, the rulings published by Wizards of the Coast, and the combos players actually run.
Official card text
Destroy all enchantments. Threshold — If there are seven or more cards in your graveyard, instead destroy all enchantments, then return all cards in your graveyard destroyed this way to the battlefield.
Complete guide
Cleansing Meditation is a powerful white sorcery that serves as a complete reset button for enchantment-heavy strategies. While it normally acts as a board wipe, its Threshold ability can turn it into a massive recovery engine for your own deck. This card is a staple for players who want to clear the way while simultaneously bringing their best utility pieces back from the dead.
What It Does
At its base, Cleansing Meditation is a three-mana sorcery that destroys all enchantments currently on the battlefield. However, if your graveyard contains seven or more cards as the spell resolves, the Threshold ability kicks in. Instead of just destroying the enchantments, it destroys them and immediately returns every enchantment card that was put into your graveyard by this specific effect back to the battlefield under your control.
Resolving the Threshold Effect
When you have Threshold, the spell follows a specific sequence. First, all enchantments on the battlefield are destroyed and moved to their owners' graveyards. Second, any cards that were just moved to your graveyard by this destruction are returned to the battlefield. It is important to note that Auras returning this way cannot be attached to other enchantments that are returning at the same time; they can only be placed on permanents that remained on the battlefield throughout the resolution.
Common Mistakes
A frequent error involves Auras and targeting. When an Aura returns to the battlefield via Cleansing Meditation, you choose a legal permanent for it to enchant, but this does not 'target' that permanent. This means you can bypass Hexproof or Shroud. However, if there are no legal permanents on the battlefield for an Aura to attach to, that Aura card simply stays in your graveyard.
When to Play It
You should play Cleansing Meditation when you need to remove oppressive enchantments like Ghostly Prison or Smothering Tithe. In a dedicated enchantment deck, you can use it to trigger 'Constellation' abilities multiple times in a single turn by wiping your own board and bringing everything back instantly, provided you have reached the seven-card Threshold requirement.
Interaction examples
If you have fewer than seven cards in your graveyard, casting Cleansing Meditation simply destroys every enchantment on the battlefield. This affects all players, leaving the board clear of Auras and global enchantments.
Open the ArmoryYou can use Open the Armory to search for a key Aura and then purposefully discard it or wait for it to be destroyed to help reach Threshold. Once you have seven cards in the graveyard, Cleansing Meditation will destroy all enchantments and then return your discarded Auras to the battlefield, allowing you to attach them to your creatures without targeting them.
Sevinne's ReclamationIf Cleansing Meditation is in your graveyard, you can use Sevinne's Reclamation to return it or other low-cost permanents to the battlefield to help manage your board state. If you then cast Cleansing Meditation with Threshold, it will destroy your enchantments and bring them back, while Sevinne's Reclamation helps ensure you have enough cards in the graveyard to trigger the Threshold effect in the first place.
Guide written with AI from the official text and rulings. Official English text prevails.
How it works : Cleansing Meditation
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
Auras returning to the battlefield can only enchant something that was already on the battlefield. An Enchant Enchantment returning to the battlefield can’t be placed on an enchantment that is also in the process of returning to the battlefield.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #2· Wizards of the Coast
Auras returning to the battlefield are placed on any legal permanent of your choice. Doing this does not target the permanent. If there is no legal permanent for an Aura, it remains in the graveyard.
No other card is named in this ruling.
Popular combos
Real combos played by the community, sorted by popularity.
Enchanted Evening + Cleansing Meditation + Archaeomancer
- 1Activate any number of permanents you control by tapping them, adding at least
. - 2Cast Cleansing Meditation by paying , destroying all permanents as they are all enchantments due to Enchanted Evening, and then returning all cards in your graveyard destroyed this way to the battlefield.
- 3When Archaeomancer enters the battlefield, it triggers, returning Cleansing Meditation from your graveyard to your hand.
- 4Repeat.
Enchanted Evening + Cleansing Meditation + Mnemonic Wall
- 1Activate any number of permanents you control by tapping them, adding at least .
- 2Cast Cleansing Meditation by paying , destroying all permanents as they are all enchantments due to Enchanted Evening, and then returning all cards in your graveyard destroyed this way to the battlefield.
- 3When Mnemonic Wall enters the battlefield, it triggers, returning Cleansing Meditation from your graveyard to your hand.
- 4Repeat.
Enchanted Evening + Cleansing Meditation + Warden of the Eye
- 1Activate any number of permanents you control by tapping them, adding at least .
- 2Cast Cleansing Meditation by paying , destroying all permanents as they are all enchantments due to Enchanted Evening, and then returning all cards in your graveyard destroyed this way to the battlefield.
- 3When Warden of the Eye enters the battlefield, it triggers, returning Cleansing Meditation from your graveyard to your hand.
- 4Repeat.
Enchanted Evening + Cleansing Meditation + Vampire Charmseeker
- 1Activate any number of permanents you control by tapping them, adding at least .
- 2Cast Cleansing Meditation by paying , destroying all permanents as they are all enchantments due to Enchanted Evening, and then returning all cards in your graveyard destroyed this way to the battlefield.
- 3When Vampire Charmseeker enters the battlefield, it triggers, returning Cleansing Meditation from your graveyard to your hand.
- 4Repeat.
Enchanted Evening + Cleansing Meditation + Scholar of the Ages
- 1Activate any number of permanents you control by tapping them, adding at least .
- 2Cast Cleansing Meditation by paying , destroying all permanents as they are all enchantments due to Enchanted Evening, and then returning all cards in your graveyard destroyed this way to the battlefield.
- 3When Scholar of the Ages enters the battlefield, it triggers, returning Cleansing Meditation and up to one other instant or sorcery from your graveyard to your hand.
- 4Repeat.
Enchanted Evening + Cleansing Meditation + Ardent Elementalist
- 1Activate any number of permanents you control by tapping them, adding at least .
- 2Cast Cleansing Meditation by paying , destroying all permanents as they are all enchantments due to Enchanted Evening, and then returning all cards in your graveyard destroyed this way to the battlefield.
- 3When Ardent Elementalist enters the battlefield, it triggers, returning Cleansing Meditation from your graveyard to your hand.
- 4Repeat.
Enchanted Evening + Cleansing Meditation + Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak
- 1Activate any number of permanents you control by tapping them, adding at least .
- 2Cast Cleansing Meditation by paying , destroying all permanents as they are all enchantments due to Enchanted Evening, and then returning all cards in your graveyard destroyed this way to the battlefield.
- 3When Pinnacle Monk enters the battlefield, it triggers, returning Cleansing Meditation from your graveyard to your hand.
- 4Repeat.
Enchanted Evening + Cleansing Meditation + Izzet Chronarch
- 1Activate any number of permanents you control by tapping them, adding at least .
- 2Cast Cleansing Meditation by paying , destroying all permanents as they are all enchantments due to Enchanted Evening, and then returning all cards in your graveyard destroyed this way to the battlefield.
- 3When Izzet Chronarch enters the battlefield, it triggers, returning Cleansing Meditation from your graveyard to your hand.
- 4Repeat.
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