Bringer of the Blue Dawn
Creature — Bringer
You may pay rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Trample
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may draw two cards.
- CMC
- 9
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BGRUW
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Arena Anthology 4
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #16588
Bringer of the Blue Dawn hits the table as a 5/5 trample that draws you three cards per turn cycle — one during each opponent's draw step in addition to your own. Nine mana is the ask, but the five-color alternative cost makes it castable in any deck that can generate one mana of each color.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Bringer of the Blue Dawn sees virtually all of its play — four opponents means drawing an extra three cards per round on top of your normal draw, which is a legitimate card advantage engine stapled to a threat. In Legacy and Vintage it's a nine-mana do-nothing-until-your-next-turn creature in formats that win on turns one through three, so it never sees a table there despite being legal. Modern is similarly inhospitable; the curve stops well before nine, and the five-color pip requirement is a non-starter in a format without reliable five-color fixing. Oathbreaker is the only other realistic home, and even there it competes for late-game slots against cheaper threats.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
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Pricing data isn't currently available for Bringer of the Blue Dawn, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for a current figure. As a casual Commander card with a narrow niche, copies tend to be easy to find without significant demand pressure.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.