Dusk // Dawn
Sorcery // Sorcery
Destroy all creatures with power 3 or greater.
- CMC
- 9
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Amonkhet Promos
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #909
Dusk // Dawn wipes the board of anything with power 3 or greater while leaving small creatures untouched, then lets you rebuy them all from your graveyard later — one card doing the work of two. Decks built around low-power creatures, like Tadeas, Juniper Ascendant, get a one-sided sweeper and a recursion engine stapled together for five mana.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Tadeas, Juniper Ascendant
Tadeas, Juniper Ascendant cares about creatures with power 1 or less, which means Dusk // Dawn kills every relevant threat on the opponent's side while leaving Tadeas's entire board standing — then Dawn returns any stragglers that did die straight back to hand.
Arcades, the Strategist
Arcades, the Strategist runs a board full of zero-power Walls and Defenders, so Dusk reads as a hard one-sided wrath; Dawn then recovers any incidental losses and keeps the pressure on.
Delney, Streetwise Lookout
Delney, Streetwise Lookout cares about creatures with power 2 or less, so Dusk // Dawn surgically clears opposing threats while Delney and most of its supporting cast survive untouched.
Arabella, Abandoned Doll
Arabella, Abandoned Doll and her supporting token suite tend to sit at low power, making Dusk // Dawn a clean one-sided board clear that leaves the go-wide engine intact for the follow-up Dawn recursion.
Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit // Sam, Loyal Attendant
Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit // Sam, Loyal Attendant is a two-power commander surrounded by small support creatures, so Dusk // Dawn threatens opponents' boards without touching the Shire — and Dawn's mass recursion refuels the hand after any sweeper exchange.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Dusk // Dawn earns its reputation: the combination of a selective board wipe and a graveyard recursion spell on one card is exactly the kind of two-for-one that multiplayer games demand. In competitive Modern and Pioneer, it's too slow and too conditional — meta threats routinely sit at power 3 or above, and five mana at sorcery speed for a sweeper that misses a quarter of the format is a liability. Legacy has the raw card quality to make the Dawn half interesting in reanimator-adjacent shells, but it rarely shows up there either. Oathbreaker mirrors the Commander logic on a smaller scale and is the only other format where it sees meaningful play.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
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Pricing data for Dusk // Dawn isn't currently available in this context, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the latest number. Given its strong Commander inclusion rates across several popular decks, it tends to hold modest value — worth picking up whenever you see it under a dollar.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Tadeas, Juniper Ascendant
- Arcades, the Strategist
- Delney, Streetwise Lookout
- Arabella, Abandoned Doll
- Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit // Sam, Loyal Attendant
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.