Sundial, Dawn Tyrant
Legendary Artifact Creature — Construct
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Aetherdrift
- Price
- $0.12
- EDHREC rank
- #14490
Sundial, Dawn Tyrant floods the board with token copies of every nontoken creature you control at the start of combat — the kind of doubling effect that ends games on the spot. The cost is a six-mana legendary that does nothing until your attack step, so you need a deck built around that payoff; Jasmine Boreal of the Seven is exactly that deck.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Jasmine Boreal of the Seven
Jasmine Boreal of the Seven's entire game plan is assembling an army of vanilla creatures, and Sundial, Dawn Tyrant converts that board into a doubled alpha strike the moment combat begins — it's not a synergy so much as a closing mechanism the deck was built to find.
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, Sundial, Dawn Tyrant is a six-mana bomb that wins the game the turn it untaps, which makes it a legitimate threat in any token or go-wide strategy but also a massive removal target before you ever reach your attack step. Competitive Commander tables will answer it before it triggers; casual tables will not, which calibrates its power level to mid-range pods. In 60-card formats like Standard, Pioneer, and Modern it's too slow and too fragile — six mana for a single trigger that requires surviving until combat is not where those formats want to be. Legacy and Vintage have no use for it either; the raw power ceiling is high but the setup cost is prohibitive against the card-efficiency those formats demand.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.12 bulk tier
At $0.12, Sundial, Dawn Tyrant is deep bulk — buy a playset on principle and don't think twice about the expense. The price is unlikely to move unless a new commander pushes mass token-copying into the mainstream spotlight, but at this tier you're not buying for value, you're buying because it's essentially free.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.