Light Up the Night
Sorcery
Light Up the Night deals X damage to any target. It deals X plus 1 damage instead if that target is a creature or planeswalker.
Flashback—
, Remove X loyalty counters from among planeswalkers you control. If you cast this spell this way, X can't be 0. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Innistrad: Midnight Hunt Promos
- Price
- $0.19
- EDHREC rank
- #17907
Light Up the Night deals damage equal to the number of instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard to any target — a payoff that scales from negligible to lethal depending on how deep your spell pile runs. The cost is real: you need a stocked graveyard before it does anything meaningful, but in the right shell it closes games Chandra, Fire of Kaladesh can't quite reach alone.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Chandra, Fire of Kaladesh
Chandra, Fire of Kaladesh wins by flipping into a planeswalker and then pinging for damage, and Light Up the Night gives that gameplan a late-game finisher that bypasses blockers entirely — dump enough instants and sorceries, and you're pointing lethal damage directly at a player's face.
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 |
In Commander, Light Up the Night is a graveyard-count payoff in spellslinger decks that are already stacking instants and sorceries — by the mid-to-late game, hitting 10+ damage to any target is realistic, and the sorcery speed rarely matters when you're closing out the game. Competitive 60-card formats tell a harder story: Modern and Legacy have faster clocks and less tolerance for setup, so Light Up the Night competes with burn spells that don't require a graveyard full of evidence. Pioneer is a more plausible home given the slower field, but dedicated graveyard-spell decks there still tend to prefer redundancy over a single big-damage payoff. Oathbreaker offers the same Commander-style engine in a smaller game, where a spellslinger signature spell can fire earlier and more decisively.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.19 bulk tier
At $0.19, Light Up the Night is firmly bulk — you're not paying a premium for the effect. Bulk rares rarely climb unless a format suddenly demands them, so pick up copies freely and don't expect the price to move.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Chandra, Fire of Kaladesh
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.