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Sun Titan

Creature — Giant

Vigilance
Whenever this creature enters or attacks, you may return target permanent card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

CMC
6
Mana cost
{4}{W}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
mythic
Set
Magic 2011 Promos
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#282
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Sun Titan card art
Sun Titan enters, attacks, or dies and immediately returns a permanent with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard — that's a repeatable recursion engine stapled to a 6/6 vigilance body for six mana. The cost is real: six mana is a commitment, and it does nothing if your graveyard is empty or your curve tops out at five. Pair it with Karmic Guide or slot it into Quintorius, History Chaser and the value compounds fast enough to justify every mana.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Quintorius, History Chaser

Quintorius, History Chaser

78.8% of decks · synergy 0.64

Quintorius, History Chaser triggers whenever a card leaves the graveyard, so Sun Titan recurring a permanent each attack step generates a steady stream of lore counters and spirit tokens without any additional setup.

02
Sefris of the Hidden Ways

Sefris of the Hidden Ways

63.6% of decks · synergy 0.56

Sefris of the Hidden Ways cares about dungeon completion and getting creatures into the graveyard, and Sun Titan fills both roles — it's a creature worth venturing toward and a recurring threat that pulls back cheaper pieces Sefris has consumed along the way.

03

Joshua, Phoenix's Dominant

64.5% of decks · synergy 0.50

Joshua, Phoenix's Dominant rewards repeated graveyard interaction, and Sun Titan's triggered recursion on attack lines up cleanly with that loop, returning utility permanents each combat while Joshua pushes the board wider.

04
Karador, Ghost Chieftain

Karador, Ghost Chieftain

55.3% of decks · synergy 0.48

Karador, Ghost Chieftain already wants a stocked graveyard full of reusable creatures, and Sun Titan acts as a self-reinforcing engine in that shell — recurring a cheap sacrifice outlet or enabler each turn to keep the Karador engine fed.

05
The Jolly Balloon Man

The Jolly Balloon Man

60.0% of decks · synergy 0.45

The Jolly Balloon Man cares about creatures with flying and repeated enters-the-battlefield effects, and Sun Titan's recursion trigger means every attack can pull back a spent value piece to trigger again, extending the chain indefinitely.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where Sun Titan has made its permanent home — the format's slower clock and graveyard-friendly ecosystem let it generate multiple triggers across a long game, and the 3-or-less mana value bracket covers a wide swath of staple permanents: fetchlands, removal enchantments, utility artifacts, and key combo pieces. In Legacy and Vintage it sees occasional fringe play in reanimator-adjacent shells, but six mana is an eternity in those formats and it rarely makes the cut over faster options. Modern is legal but largely irrelevant — the efficient-creature bar is too high and the payoff too slow. Sun Titan is, in practice, a Commander card through and through.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

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Pricing data isn't available in the current feed, so check Scryfall for the latest number — Sun Titan has been reprinted multiple times and typically sits in the budget-to-mid range. Given its reprint history, it's rarely a significant financial ask and is almost always worth picking up for any white Commander deck that plays to the graveyard.

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