Exile into Darkness
Sorcery
Target player sacrifices a creature of their choice with mana value 3 or less.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have more cards in hand than each opponent, you may return this card from your graveyard to your hand.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Saviors of Kamigawa
- Price
- $0.16
- EDHREC rank
- #28448
Exile into Darkness hits the table as a reusable removal engine — at the end of each turn, you can pay two mana and sacrifice it to destroy a creature your opponents control with mana value less than or equal to your graveyard count. The catch is that five-mana entry cost and the fact that its trigger fires at end of turn, not at will, which makes it slow enough to miss in most competitive builds.
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 |
Commander is where Exile into Darkness has its best shot, specifically in graveyard-centric decks that fill the bin fast enough to threaten large creatures by turn six or seven. Outside of that niche it competes against instant-speed, unconditional removal at similar or lower mana values, and it loses that fight. In Legacy and Vintage it's a non-starter — the format speed makes a five-mana sorcery-speed enchantment irrelevant before it ever triggers. Modern has enough cheap interaction that Exile into Darkness never gets the runway it needs. Stick it in Commander graveyard builds and nowhere else.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.16 bulk tier
At $0.16, Exile into Darkness is deep bulk — the kind of card you pull from a common box rather than buy. That price is stable by virtue of being a floor, not because demand exists to move it.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.