Bringer of the White Dawn
Creature — Bringer
You may pay 
rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Trample
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may return target artifact card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
- CMC
- 9
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BGRUW
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Arena Anthology 4
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #20116
Bringer of the White Dawn puts an artifact from any graveyard directly onto the battlefield at the start of your upkeep — repeatable, free recursion stapled to an 5/5 trampler that costs eight mana or any five colors. The cost is real, but Coretapper and similar charge-counter synergies make that eight feel much closer to five in the right shell.
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 White Dawn does its best work — artifact recursion at that scale is meaningful, and five-color decks or artifact-heavy commanders can leverage the alternate cost to land it ahead of curve. In Legacy and Vintage it's a novelty at best; eight mana is unreachable without dedicated acceleration, and the triggered recursion doesn't compensate for the raw inefficiency against those formats' threats. Modern has enough cheap artifact recursion that an eight-drop with no immediate board impact simply doesn't compete. Oathbreaker is legal but faces the same curve problem as Commander without the same toolbox to exploit it.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Bringer of the White DawnCoretapperMagistrate's ScepterThousand-Year Elixir
Infinite turns; Lock
View on Commander Spellbook ↗
Bringer of the White DawnCoretapperMagistrate's ScepterLightning Greaves
Infinite turns; Lock
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Current price
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Price data for Bringer of the White Dawn isn't currently available in our index, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the latest number. It's a casual-demand card with narrow competitive appeal, which historically keeps copies cheap and findable.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.