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Disciple of the Sun

Creature — Human Cleric

Lifelink
When this creature enters, return target permanent card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to your hand.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{4}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
common
Set
Jumpstart: Historic Horizons
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#20968
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Disciple of the Sun card art
Disciple of the Sun recurs a permanent from your graveyard to your hand whenever you cycle it — a repeatable, low-friction recursion effect stapled to a body that replaces itself. The cost is real: four mana for a 2/3 with no immediate board impact means you're playing it exclusively for the combo shells it enables, most notably loops with Mana Echoes.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is the only format where Disciple of the Sun earns consistent slots, and only in dedicated cycling or recursion shells — the four-mana investment demands a deck that wants to loop it rather than just play it fair. In Pauper it's legal but outclassed by cheaper recursive threats and cycle payoffs that do more for less. Legacy and Vintage are non-starters; the effect isn't close to competitive in those formats. Oathbreaker mirrors Commander's verdict: Disciple of the Sun is a build-around piece, not a generically good card.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

unknown tier

Pricing data for Disciple of the Sun isn't available in the current feed, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the live number. Given its narrow application as a combo enabler in Commander, it tends to sit in bulk-to-fringe territory — pick it up if you're building the deck, don't speculate on it.

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