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Dose of Dawnglow

Instant

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Then if it isn't your main phase, blight 2. (Put two -1/-1 counters on a creature you control.)

CMC
5
Mana cost
{4}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Lorwyn Eclipsed
Price
$0.15
EDHREC rank
#17509
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Dose of Dawnglow card art
Dose of Dawnglow gains you life equal to the number of permanents you sacrificed this turn, which in any dedicated sacrifice shell can swing your life total by double digits for two mana. Pair it with Viscera Seer and a token-flooding commander and you're looking at a combat-irrelevant life buffer that also fuels life-payment engines — bulk price, real output.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where Dose of Dawnglow earns its slot, specifically in Orzhov or Abzan sacrifice decks that churn through permanents every turn cycle and want a payoff that scales with that volume. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer, the ceiling is lower — you need a dedicated sacrifice turn to make it worth the slot, and there are faster ways to gain life or close games. Standard and Legacy are legal but offer better options at the same cost. The card is narrow enough that outside Commander's singleton environment and longer games, it rarely makes the cut.

Key Combos

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Price Context

Current price

$0.15 bulk tier

At $0.15, Dose of Dawnglow is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard and postage, not the card itself. That price is stable; there's no crossover appeal to competitive 60-card formats that would drive demand up.

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