Extinguish the Light
Instant
Destroy target creature or planeswalker. If its mana value was 3 or less, you gain 3 life.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Dominaria United
- Price
- $0.10
- EDHREC rank
- #20519
Extinguish the Light destroys any creature or planeswalker and gains you life equal to its mana value — a clean two-for-one on rate that scales up against expensive threats. Four mana at sorcery speed is the real cost, and in competitive Commander that tempo loss is hard to stomach.
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 |
In Commander, Extinguish the Light occupies the crowded slot of four-mana sorcery removal, where it has to compete against Generous Gift and Anguished Unmaking — both instant-speed. The life gain clause is a real upside in longer games and against high-CMC commanders you plan to re-eliminate, but sorcery speed means you can't answer a Blightsteel Colossus swinging at you. In Pauper, Extinguish the Light is one of the stronger common removal options since the card pool thins out at this effect — hitting planeswalkers is rare at common, and the life gain matters more in a slower format. Elsewhere — Legacy, Modern, Pioneer — the card doesn't see play; the formats move too fast for a four-mana sorcery to do meaningful work.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.10 bulk tier
At $0.10, Extinguish the Light is pure bulk — you're paying almost nothing for a functional removal spell. Bulk commons rarely move in price unless a format breakout drives demand, and nothing in the current metagame suggests that's coming here.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.