Sunset Revelry
Sorcery
If an opponent has more life than you, you gain 4 life.
If an opponent controls more creatures than you, create two 1/1 white Human creature tokens.
If an opponent has more cards in hand than you, draw a card.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Innistrad: Double Feature
- Price
- $0.36
- EDHREC rank
- #8374
Sunset Revelry puts three effects on the board for two mana — tokens, life, and cards — each gated on whether you're behind your opponents in that resource, which means in a four-player game you're almost always cashing in all three. Éowyn, Shieldmaiden turns those tokens into immediate board pressure, making this one of the more efficient setup spells in white.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Éowyn, Shieldmaiden
Éowyn, Shieldmaiden rewards flooding the board with tokens, and Sunset Revelry reliably delivers two of them at instant speed for two mana — exactly the kind of low-cost token production that triggers her combat bonuses without eating a full turn.
Aragorn, King of Gondor
Aragorn, King of Gondor wants a wide board to apply pressure and capitalize on the monarch mechanic, and Sunset Revelry fills that role cheaply while also replacing itself with cards if you're behind on hand size — a two-mana spell that does real work on two or three axes is exactly what he needs.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Sunset Revelry routinely connects on all three clauses — you're almost always behind at least one opponent in tokens, life, and cards at a four-player table — making it an unusually efficient two-mana white spell. In Modern and Pioneer, the card struggles: those formats are faster and more linear, and conditional effects that require you to be behind lose value when being behind means you're already losing. Legacy has the raw power density to make the conditions hard to meet on your own terms, so Sunset Revelry rarely makes the cut there either. Commander is clearly its home.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.36 bulk tier
At $0.36, Sunset Revelry is bulk, and that price reflects its narrow competitive appeal outside of Commander. It's stable bulk — popular enough in Commander decks that it won't drop further, but not a card that climbs.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.