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Spinning Darkness - Instant

Weatherlight · 1997

Market Prices

$0.91median

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Legality

PremodernLEGAL
Full Scryfall Data
Weatherlight{4}{B}{B}

Spinning Darkness

Instant

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.

Printings & Editions

Premodern-legal editions of Spinning Darkness — old-border printings plus any period-appropriate foil promos (Arena/Judge, through Scourge). Hover to preview an edition on the card; click to select it.

Old-border editions + pre-Scourge promo foils (Arena/Judge). Modern-frame reprints (8th Edition onward) exist but are not period-appropriate printings.

Critical Rulings

"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."

— 2008-04-01

"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."

— 2008-04-01

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

— 2008-04-01

"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."

— 2008-04-01

"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."

— 2008-04-01

Price History

91d · USD
$0.91▲ 54.2%

Tracks this card’s preferred printing: the old-border edition shown by default (block-expansion printings first, e.g. Urza’s, Tempest, Mirage). It doesn’t re-price when you select a different edition above. Per-edition history is planned.

$0.97$0.77$0.58
03/1804/1705/1806/18

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