Dust of Moments
Instant
Choose one —
• Remove two time counters from each permanent and each suspended card.
• Put two time counters on each permanent with a time counter on it and each suspended card.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Future Sight
- Price
- $0.42
- EDHREC rank
- #15646
Dust of Moments either advances every counter on the board by two or strips two counters from everything — a massive swing for two mana at instant speed. Gandalf of the Secret Fire runs it in nearly half of all builds because choosing between aging up your own permanents or gutting opposing charge counters, poison stacks, or saga chapters is rarely a bad option for the cost.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Gandalf of the Secret Fire
Gandalf of the Secret Fire treats Dust of Moments as a modal engine piece — adding counters accelerates his own triggered abilities and any proliferate-adjacent synergies, while the removal mode dismantles opposing sagas, infect totals, or planeswalker loyalty at instant speed for two 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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Dust of Moments is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but its home is Commander by a wide margin. The format's multiplayer dynamics make the mass-counter manipulation proportionally stronger — two mana to either advance every counter-based engine at the table or set back every saga, infect stack, or charge counter simultaneously is a deal no other format rewards as richly. In Legacy and Vintage it's too narrow and too slow to see meaningful play, since those formats rarely build around counters in ways this card can exploit at scale. Oathbreaker offers the same multiplayer upside as Commander, and any Oathbreaker shell built around planeswalker loyalty or proliferate strategies should consider Dust of Moments for the same reasons Gandalf decks do.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.42 bulk tier
At $0.42, Dust of Moments sits firmly in bulk territory — low enough that there's no real financial barrier to including it. Bulk rares with narrow applications rarely climb unless a new commander breaks them wide open, so treat it as a cheap pickup for the decks that want it, not a spec.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.