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Blue Sun's Twilight

Sorcery

Gain control of target creature with mana value X or less. If X is 5 or more, create a token that's a copy of that creature.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{X}{U}{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
rare
Set
Phyrexia: All Will Be One Promos
Price
$0.52
EDHREC rank
#3983
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Blue Sun's Twilight card art
Blue Sun's Twilight steals any creature on the board and hands you a token copy if you overpaid — removal, theft, and board presence on a single card. The cost is that X has to be high enough to matter, and copying it with Dualcaster Mage or bouncing it through Zevlor, Elturel Exile turns a strong spell into a game-ending one.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Zevlor, Elturel Exile

Zevlor, Elturel Exile

37.7% of decks · synergy 0.37

Zevlor, Elturel Exile's ability to fork Blue Sun's Twilight to every opponent means you can steal one creature from each player simultaneously, which is as back-breaking as it sounds.

02
Magus Lucea Kane

Magus Lucea Kane

20.6% of decks · synergy 0.19

Magus Lucea Kane doubles the X value of Blue Sun's Twilight for free, routinely pushing you into the token-copy threshold and making the theft permanent without requiring extra mana investment.

03
Zaxara, the Exemplary

Zaxara, the Exemplary

19.4% of decks · synergy 0.18

Zaxara, the Exemplary generates a Hydra token whenever you cast an X spell, so Blue Sun's Twilight steals a creature and puts a body into play on your side before the theft even resolves.

04
Don Andres, the Renegade

Don Andres, the Renegade

18.7% of decks · synergy 0.18

Don Andres, the Renegade rewards you for playing with cards you don't own, and Blue Sun's Twilight is one of the cleanest ways to acquire an opponent's best creature and immediately fold it into that gameplan.

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

Blue Sun's Twilight is a Commander card through and through — the X-spell structure, the token clause, and the political weight of targeted theft all scale best in multiplayer games with large boards and expensive creatures worth stealing. In Modern and Pioneer it's too slow and too conditional; paying five or more mana at sorcery speed to steal one creature simply isn't competitive when faster answers exist. Legacy and Vintage have the same problem compounded by a card pool full of combo kills that don't care about your stolen creature. Oathbreaker is the one exception where it can shine similarly to Commander, especially under a spell-copying signature spell shell.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.52 bulk tier

At $0.52, Blue Sun's Twilight sits firmly in bulk territory despite being a genuine staple in X-spell and theft strategies. That price is likely a floor — it sees consistent Commander play and shows up in roughly 40,000 decks on EDHREC, so it's an easy pickup at current prices before any reprint demand moves it.

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