Starlight
Sorcery
You gain 3 life for each black creature target opponent controls.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Portal
- Price
- $0.47
- EDHREC rank
- #29427
Starlight gains you a modest amount of life — nothing that changes a board state, shifts card equity, or threatens an opponent. It's a pure life-gain spell with no attached draw, no bonus condition, and no reason to run it over effects that actually replace themselves.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Starlight is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but legality and playability are different conversations. In Commander, life-gain for its own sake is a trap — 40 starting life already gives you buffer, and Starlight converts a card slot into a number change with no board presence. Legacy and Vintage have no interest in it either; those formats demand every slot either win the game or stop the opponent from doing so. Oathbreaker shares Commander's problem at a compressed scale. There is no competitive context where Starlight earns inclusion.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.47 bulk tier
At $0.47, Starlight sits in bulk territory, which is accurate pricing for what it does. The price won't climb — there's no shell waiting to break a vanilla life-gain instant, and demand isn't coming.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.