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Spinning Darkness

{4}{B}{B}

Instant

Weatherlight·wth #81·Common·1997·Art by John Coulthart
StandardNot Legal
ModernNot Legal
CommanderLegal
LegacyLegal
PioneerNot Legal
VintageLegal

Oracle Text

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.

Print Details

Set
Weatherlight (WTH)
Number
#81
Rarity
Common
Artist
John Coulthart
Frame
1997
Border
Black
Language
EN
Finishes
Nonfoil
USD
$0.88
EUR
1.62
MTGO Tix
7.84

Indicative figures.

Card Knowledge

Legalities

StandardNot Legal
PioneerNot Legal
ModernNot Legal
LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
CommanderLegal

Rulings5

4/1/2008·wotc

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.

4/1/2008·wotc

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.

4/1/2008·wotc

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

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