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Second Sunrise

Instant

Each player returns to the battlefield all artifact, creature, enchantment, and land cards in their graveyard that were put there from the battlefield this turn.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{1}{W}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
rare
Set
The List
Price
$4.43
EDHREC rank
#8684
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Second Sunrise card art
Second Sunrise returns every permanent each player lost this turn to the battlefield simultaneously — artifacts, creatures, lands, all of it — for three mana at instant speed. The Codex Shredder loop made it infamous enough to earn a Modern ban, and in any format where it's legal, that engine potential is the entire reason to run it.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern banned
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Second Sunrise is banned in Modern, where the Eggs combo deck used it to loop zero-cost artifacts with Codex Shredder until it had drawn its entire deck and won — the games were interminable and the ban was inevitable. Vintage and Legacy let it exist because those formats have faster, more brutal ways to win, and the Eggs shell isn't uniquely oppressive there. Commander gives it a full pass: the singleton rule means you can't reliably assemble the redundant piece count the Modern deck needed, and the 40-life multiplayer context makes slow, repetitive loops harder to execute before someone interacts.

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Price Context

Current price

$4.43 cheap tier

At $4.43, Second Sunrise sits in budget territory for what is functionally a combo engine piece. The price reflects its niche demand — it's not a staple, but every artifact-recursion or Eggs-style Commander deck that wants it will pay this without blinking.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.