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Black Sun's Twilight

Instant

Up to one target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. If X is 5 or more, return a creature card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

CMC
1
Mana cost
{X}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
rare
Set
Phyrexia: All Will Be One Promos
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#4500
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Black Sun's Twilight card art
Black Sun's Twilight is a removal spell that scales from cheap spot removal into a reanimation spell stapled onto a board wipe — pay five or more mana and you're destroying a nonland permanent and returning a creature from your graveyard to the battlefield. The floor is fine and the ceiling is backbreaking, especially in shells that want a sacrifice outlet like Ashnod's Altar to stock the graveyard before Massacre Girl, Known Killer clears the board.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Massacre Girl, Known Killer

Massacre Girl, Known Killer

59.4% of decks · synergy 0.56

Massacre Girl, Known Killer is the natural home — she taxes every creature ETB and death, which means Black Sun's Twilight's destroy-and-reanimate mode actively fuels her engine by killing something, triggering her death clause, then dropping a creature back into play for another ETB tax.

02
Zevlor, Elturel Exile

Zevlor, Elturel Exile

10.6% of decks · synergy 0.10

Zevlor, Elturel Exile copies instants and sorceries that target a single opponent and redirects them at each other opponent, so Black Sun's Twilight's destroy clause — which targets — becomes a multi-player removal sweep while still netting you a reanimation if you hit the mana threshold.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Black Sun's Twilight lives in Commander, where the mana cost to hit the full mode is a real ask but the payoff — removal plus free reanimation — is strong enough to justify the slot in any black deck that expects a stocked graveyard. In Modern and Pioneer it competes against cheaper, more reliable removal and rarely makes the cut outside of niche reanimator shells where the modal flexibility matters. Legacy's card quality bar is too high for a six-mana sorcery to see play. Oathbreaker is a reasonable home for the same reasons as Commander, particularly with a black planeswalker at the helm.

Key Combos

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Price Context

Current price

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Current pricing data for Black Sun's Twilight isn't available in this listing, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the latest figures before buying. Given its niche but genuine Commander demand, it typically sits in the budget-to-mid range — worth confirming before you trade for it.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.