Djeru's Renunciation
Instant
Tap up to two target creatures.
Cycling 
(, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Hour of Devastation
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #22151
Djeru's Renunciation taps two target creatures and gives them summoning sickness until your next turn — a two-for-one tempo play for a single white mana at flash speed. It's a narrow combat trick that rarely makes the cut outside dedicated tap-synergy shells.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Djeru's Renunciation is legal across Commander, Pauper, Modern, Pioneer, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but sees meaningful play only in Pauper, where cheap tempo spells have more room to breathe. In Commander, a one-mana instant that taps two creatures without removing them is almost never worth a card slot — the effect is too small to matter at a table of four. Competitive formats like Modern and Legacy have strictly better options for interaction at this price point, so Djeru's Renunciation is largely a Pauper and Limited card.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Djeru's Renunciation is deep bulk — you'll find it in a common box, not a trade binder. There's no demand driver that changes that, so expect it to stay at the floor indefinitely.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.