White Sun's Twilight
Sorcery
You gain X life. Create X 1/1 colorless Phyrexian Mite artifact creature tokens with toxic 1 and "This token can't block." If X is 5 or more, destroy all other creatures. (Players dealt combat damage by a creature with toxic 1 also get a poison counter.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Phyrexia: All Will Be One
- Price
- $2.62
- EDHREC rank
- #1914
White Sun's Twilight is one of the most efficient board-wipe-plus-refill spells in white — at five mana it clears the board of smaller threats and leaves you with a Cat army scaled to what you just spent, and at ten it becomes a full Wrath that replaces itself with indestructible creatures. The catch is that the spell's value collapses if someone copies it with something like Dualcaster Mage, handing an opponent your army, and Elesh Norn strategies get the most out of it because the anthem effect turns even modest token counts into closing pressure.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Elesh Norn
Elesh Norn pumps every creature you control, so the Cat tokens White Sun's Twilight generates arrive pre-buffed — a mid-game cast at five or six mana produces a board that attacks for lethal faster than opponents can rebuild. The combination of wipe and immediate token generation is exactly the tempo swing Elesh Norn decks want.
Vishgraz, the Doomhive
Vishgraz, the Doomhive cares about Phyrexian and toxic synergies, and White Sun's Twilight provides a large token payload that can be proliferated or buffed to push poison counters through. The board-wipe mode also clears blockers cleanly, letting Vishgraz's poison gameplan continue uninterrupted.
Ixhel, Scion of Atraxa
Ixhel, Scion of Atraxa rewards going wide with toxic creatures, and White Sun's Twilight delivers a fresh wide board the turn you cast it — which matters because Ixhel's corrupt trigger needs attackers, not just surviving ones. The spell's scalability means it remains relevant at any stage of a game that tends to run long.
Mondrak, Glory Dominus
Mondrak, Glory Dominus doubles token production, so White Sun's Twilight cast for X=4 or higher with Mondrak on the field produces roughly twice the expected Cat count and turns a solid refill into a game-ending board state. That doubling effect makes even modest X values worth casting.
Brimaz, Blight of Oreskos
Brimaz, Blight of Oreskos generates Phyrexian tokens whenever your creatures deal combat damage, which means White Sun's Twilight's Cat army becomes a multiplier — more attackers mean more incubate triggers and a faster poison clock. The wipe-then-flood pattern is a clean answer to stalled boards that Brimaz decks regularly encounter.
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 |
White Sun's Twilight is a Commander card first and almost exclusively — the mana investment required to get full value out of X spells is simply not realistic in faster formats like Modern or Pioneer, where the game is often decided before you can profitably cast this at five-plus mana. In Legacy and Vintage it's legally playable but competes against free interaction and threats that make a sorcery-speed token generator irrelevant as a standalone plan. Commander is the one format where the spell earns its slot: the singleton environment means you can't rely on redundancy for your sweepers, and White Sun's Twilight pulling double duty as a wipe and a board-refill is exactly the kind of two-for-one efficiency white needs at the table. Oathbreaker could find room for it in a planeswalker shell that generates mana, but that's a narrow fit compared to the broad Commander application.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Dualcaster MageWhite Sun's TwilightEldrazi DisplacerAshnod's Altar
Infinite colorless mana; Infinite creature tokens; Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite lifegain; Infinite lifegain triggers; Infinite LTB; Infinite magecraft triggers; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite blinking of most creatures; Infinite blinking
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Current price
$2.62 cheap tier
At $2.62, White Sun's Twilight is cheap for a card that functions as both a sweeper and a token generator — most comparable white spells that do either job alone cost more. The price is unlikely to climb sharply given its single-format relevance, but it's a clean pickup at this tier for any white token or Phyrexian deck without one.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.