Starfall Invocation
Sorcery
Gift a card (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, they draw a card before its other effects.)
Destroy all creatures. If the gift was promised, return a creature card put into your graveyard this way to the battlefield under your control.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Bloomburrow Promos
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #2192
Starfall Invocation hits the board hard enough to swing a game on the spot — the question is whether your deck can stomach the mana cost. It's a natural fit in Zoraline, Cosmos Caller shells that want to copy or recur big spells, and Dualcaster Mage turns a single cast into a two-for-one that's difficult to race.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Zoraline, Cosmos Caller
Zoraline, Cosmos Caller appears in nearly half of all Zoraline decks because the commander's copy-and-recur engine makes a high-impact sorcery like Starfall Invocation worth paying full price more than once.
Mabel, Heir to Cragflame
Mabel, Heir to Cragflame runs Starfall Invocation to push through the last points of damage — the spell's board-wide reach lines up cleanly with a go-wide aggro gameplan that needs to close games before opponents stabilize.
Niko, Light of Hope
Niko, Light of Hope decks use Starfall Invocation as a finisher that doubles as a shard generator, feeding the counter-and-token synergies that Niko's kit is built around.
Sephara, Sky's Blade
Sephara, Sky's Blade wants Starfall Invocation because flying-matters builds regularly go wide in the air, and a sweeper-finisher that rewards board presence fits the deck's late-game power spike.
Mr. Foxglove
Mr. Foxglove decks pick up Starfall Invocation as a top-end threat that plays into the spell-value gameplan, where every high-impact sorcery is a potential payoff for the deck's copy and recurrence pieces.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Starfall Invocation earns its slot in decks that can recur or copy spells — one cast is fine, but the second and third copies are where the card becomes genuinely threatening. In competitive non-rotating formats like Legacy and Vintage, the mana cost makes it a fringe consideration at best; those formats have cheaper ways to achieve comparable board impact. Modern and Pioneer are more realistic homes if a specific combo line justifies the investment, but Starfall Invocation is unlikely to show up outside of dedicated spellslinger or flicker shells. Standard is its most accessible paper format right now, where the top end of the curve is less punishing and the raw power of the effect can close games before opponents have the tools to answer it.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Starfall InvocationDualcaster Mage
Infinite LTB; Infinite ETB; Infinite death triggers; Infinite magecraft triggers; Infinite card draw for target opponent; Infinite draw triggers for target opponent
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Starfall InvocationNaru Meha, Master Wizard
Infinite LTB; Infinite ETB; Infinite death triggers; Infinite magecraft triggers; Infinite card draw for target opponent; Infinite draw triggers for target opponent
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Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data for Starfall Invocation isn't confirmed yet, so check current listings before buying in. Given the card's Commander demand — nearly half of all Zoraline decks run it — expect prices to reflect that adoption once the market settles.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.