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Spinning Darkness

Weatherlight • #81 • common
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Spinning Darkness

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Live Value $0.83
Foil Multiplier: Flat Baseline (1.0x)
Reprint Profile:
Never Reprinted MINIMAL

Never reprinted since its original release.

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Rarity
common
Set Origin
Daily Shift
-1.19%
EDHREC Rank
#25,707
Mana Cost
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Oracle Data

Card Type Instant
Color Identity Black
🖋️ Curator's Notes
You may exile the top three black cards of your graveyard rather than pay this spell's mana cost.

Spinning Darkness deals 3 damage to target nonblack creature. You gain 3 life.
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Official Judge Precedents

5 Precedents

The last thing that happens to a resolving instant or sorcery spell is that it’s put into its owner’s graveyard. —Example: You cast Wrath of God. All creatures on the battlefield are destroyed. You arrange all the cards put into your graveyard this way in any order you want. The other players in the game do the same to the cards that are put into their graveyards. Then you put Wrath of God into your graveyard, on top of the other cards.

Say you’re the owner of both a permanent and an Aura that’s attached to it. If both the permanent and the Aura are destroyed at the same time (by Akroma’s Vengeance, for example), you decide the order they’re put into your graveyard. If just the enchanted permanent is destroyed, it’s put into your graveyard first. Then, after state-based actions are checked, the Aura (which is no longer attached to anything) is put into your graveyard on top of it.

The “top” card of your graveyard is the card that was put there most recently.

If an effect or rule puts two or more cards into the same graveyard at the same time, the owner of those cards may arrange them in any order.

Players may not rearrange the cards in their graveyards. This is a little-known rule because new cards that care about graveyard order haven’t been printed in years.

📜 Technical Attributes
Release Date: 1997-06-09
Set Name: Weatherlight
Artist Reference: John Coulthart
Border Profile: black
✨ Variants & Finishes
Available Finishes Standard
Promo Status NO
Edition Status Original Printing

Sanctioned Formats

standard not_legal
modern not_legal
legacy legal
commander legal
pioneer not_legal
pauper legal
vintage legal
brawl not_legal
explorer not_legal
penny not_legal
predh legal
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