Green Sun's Twilight
Sorcery
Reveal the top X plus one cards of your library. Choose a creature card and/or a land card from among them. Put those cards into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. If X is 5 or more, instead put the chosen cards onto the battlefield or into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Phyrexia: All Will Be One
- Price
- $0.37
- EDHREC rank
- #5256
Green Sun's Twilight puts a permanent onto the battlefield for free when you spend enough mana — cast it for X=5 and you're dropping a five-mana creature without paying its cost, which is already a strong rate. The ceiling gets absurd with Belbe, Corrupted Observer generating large amounts of colorless mana, or when a copy effect like Dualcaster Mage doubles the trigger and lands two permanents at once.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Belbe, Corrupted Observer
Belbe, Corrupted Observer generates explosive amounts of colorless mana off opponent life loss, and Green Sun's Twilight converts that mana directly into a free permanent — the bigger the damage dealt, the more threatening the creature you pull out at no additional cost.
Rosheen, Roaring Prophet
Rosheen, Roaring Prophet's tap ability produces four mana usable only on X spells, making Green Sun's Twilight a natural fit — Rosheen effectively bankrolls the X cost, letting you slam a mid-to-large permanent as early as turn four.
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 Green Sun's Twilight does its best work — singleton construction means you're often searching for one specific silver bullet rather than the fourth copy of something, and the free-permanent clause rewards the format's tendency toward high-CMC threats. In Modern and Pioneer the card sees fringe play, mostly in big-mana green shells that can reliably reach X=5 or higher, but it competes with cheaper tutors and lacks the consistency payoff that makes it an auto-include. Legacy has faster, more powerful options at every point on the curve, so Green Sun's Twilight rarely earns a slot there. Oathbreaker can mirror the Commander experience if your planeswalker generates mana or cares about permanents entering.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Dualcaster MageGreen Sun's TwilightInfinite ReflectionLiving Plane
Near-infinite copies of a specific creature; Near-infinite ETB; Near-infinite magecraft triggers
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Current price
$0.37 bulk tier
At $0.37, Green Sun's Twilight is bulk — you're getting genuine card-advantage potential for essentially nothing. Given the power level relative to price, it's a safe pickup; bulk mythics with this much text rarely stay at floor price long-term, though the current supply keeps it accessible.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Dualcaster Mage
- Belbe, Corrupted Observer
- Rosheen, Roaring Prophet
- Infinite Reflection
- Living Plane
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.