Red and/or white cards that can handle indestructible creatures

Question

I am creating a Red-White commander deck using Gisela as my commander. I noticed that my deck is incredibly weak against a deck with any sort of indestructible creature. I know of the board sweeper Terminus, but I was wondering if red/white has any other tricks up its sleeve to get rid of tricky creatures. I'm looking for both sweepers and target-specific cards.

Answer 1

Apocalypse , Path to Exile, Swords to Plowshares, Crib Swap, Paralla Wave, Archon of Justice, Witch Hunter, Evangelize, Helm of Possession, Preacher, Tariff, Warp World, ...

The most effective answer is to learn to use the Gatherers Advanced Search to search for keywords in the rules sacrifice, exile, gain control, then exclude cards that are not red, white, or colorless*.

Answer 2

There are a variety of general answer for indestructible permanents:

1. Exile effects, which are your real bread-and-butter for all kinds of removal.
2. Toughness-reducing effects against creatures.
3. Sacrifice effects.
4. "Tuck" (move to library) effects.
5. Bouncing permanents (temporary).
6. Stealing permanents: the indestructible thing isn't a problem if you control it, right?
7. Ability- and action- restricting cards like Pithing Needle and Pacifism, if all you're worried about is disabling a card rather than removing it from the battlefield.

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White is probably the strongest color for dealing with indestructible permanents after they've resolved. Some of your options are:

• Oblivion Ring is single-shot answer to any non-land permanent.
• Path to Exile and Swords to Plowshares are low-cost instant answers for creatures.
• Revoke Existence for artifacts and enchantments.
• Final Judgement is an exile-based sweeper.
• Hallowed Burial and Terminus are "tuck"-based sweepers.
• Condemn: can "tuck" a troublesome creature, although only when it's attacking.
• Pacifism effects may be good enough if you're just trying to get rid of a blocker or prevent a card from using its activated abilities; Faith's Fetters and Prison Term are probably the best choice there.
• Elesh Norn will clear out a lot of weenies even if they're indestructible.
• Evangelize and a lot mana: steal all their stuff.

In red:

• Chaos Warp can "tuck" anything.
• Into the Core can answer indestructible artifacts like Darksteel Forge.
• Apocalypse and Decree of Annihilation are exile-based sweepers.
• Warp World and similar cards will remove the offending permanents (at the cost of giving your opponent new toys to replace them).
• Insurrection will let you take all of an opponent's creatures for a turn -- usually that's enough to finish off a player or feed them all to a sacrifice outlet like Ashnod's Altar so you don't have to give them back.

Colorless cards worth noting:

• Karn Liberated can easily exile multiple troublesome permanents.
• All Is Dust is a sacrifice-based sweeper.

Answer 3

Although toughness reduction is not particularly white or red (which does gets +/- effects, though), you could look at creatures with Wither or Infect. In control-stealing, red has many temporary stealing spells and effects with stuff like Act of Treason, Blind with Anger, Grab the Reins, Mark of Mutiny, Threaten, Tibalt, Traitorous Blood, Zealous Conscripts... White has the non-time limited Preacher, though.