Red Sun's Twilight
Sorcery
Destroy up to X target artifacts. If X is 5 or more, for each artifact destroyed this way, create a token that's a copy of it. Those tokens gain haste. Exile them at the beginning of the next end step.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Phyrexia: All Will Be One
- Price
- $0.37
- EDHREC rank
- #6460
Red Sun's Twilight clears the board of artifacts and creatures at instant speed, then hands you every nonland permanent it destroyed if X is five or more — that's a one-card wrath and theft engine stapled together. The cost is real: hitting the five threshold requires serious mana investment, but Hinata, Dawn-Crowned slashes that number dramatically, and Dualcaster Mage can copy it before the delayed trigger resolves to double the haul.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Hinata, Dawn-Crowned
Hinata, Dawn-Crowned reduces the cost of Red Sun's Twilight by one for each target it has, meaning a table's worth of artifacts and creatures can push the effective cost low enough to hit the five-threshold steal clause on a fraction of the actual mana — it's the single best shell for this card.
Obeka, Brute Chronologist
Obeka, Brute Chronologist can end the turn in response to the delayed triggered ability of Red Sun's Twilight, banking the steal for a future turn and dodging any interaction opponents might have lined up for the resolution window.
Kibo, Uktabi Prince
Kibo, Uktabi Prince floods every player's board with Banana artifact tokens, which Red Sun's Twilight then sweeps up alongside whatever else is on the table, reliably padding the card count toward the five-permanent steal threshold.
The Master, Multiplied
The Master, Multiplied copies spells and triggers repeatedly, making Red Sun's Twilight a natural fit — additional copies of the spell can hit different artifact and creature targets, piling more permanents into the delayed steal trigger.
Rosheen, Roaring Prophet
Rosheen, Roaring Prophet taps for four mana restricted to X spells, directly fueling the mana-intensive top end of Red Sun's Twilight and making the five-threshold steal clause consistently accessible without dedicating extra ramp slots.
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 |
Red Sun's Twilight is a Commander card through and through — the delayed steal clause only pays off in a format where opponents have stocked boards of high-value artifacts and creatures worth taking. In Modern and Pioneer, the five-mana floor to even cast it is steep, and opponents rarely have enough permanents in play to justify the investment over more efficient removal. Legacy has the fast mana to make large X values feasible, but dedicated artifact strategies have cleaner answers, so it sees almost no competitive play there. Oathbreaker mirrors Commander's appeal on a smaller axis, and the same spell-cost synergies with Hinata, Dawn-Crowned translate directly. Stick to Commander for Red Sun's Twilight — the multiplayer board state is what makes the math work.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Dualcaster MageRed Sun's TwilightEncroaching Mycosynth
Create a copy of each artifact an opponent controls; Destroy all artifacts opponents control; Infinite blinking of nonland permanents; Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite magecraft triggers
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Current price
$0.37 bulk tier
At $0.37, Red Sun's Twilight is bulk, and that price reflects its narrow competitive appeal outside Commander rather than any ceiling on its power level in the right shell. It's a safe pickup — bulk rares with genuine Commander demand rarely drop further, and this one has a clear home in multiple high-synergy decks.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.