Captured Sunlight
Sorcery
Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)
You gain 4 life.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GW
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Alara Reborn
- Price
- $0.09
- EDHREC rank
- #21297
Captured Sunlight gains you 4 life and cascades into a free spell — both stapled onto a single four-mana sorcery. The rate is real, but the ceiling depends entirely on what your deck's curve looks like below four mana.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Captured Sunlight earns its slot in any deck that wants incidental life gain alongside value — cascade into a two-drop or three-drop while stabilizing against aggro is a reasonable deal at four mana. In Pauper, where the card is legal and life totals matter more, the life gain portion carries extra weight and the cascade hits a dense pool of cheap commons. Legacy and Vintage have access to broken cascade targets, but four mana is too slow for those formats and better cascade options exist at lower costs. Captured Sunlight is essentially a Commander and Pauper card — the other eternal formats have no reason to register it.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.09 bulk tier
At $0.09, Captured Sunlight is deep bulk — the kind of card you pull from a common box rather than buy singles. That price is stable by definition; there's no realistic demand spike coming for a four-mana sorcery with this profile.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.