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Spinning Darkness

Black

1 printing listed in our catalog, from newest to oldest.

Spinning Darkness, Weatherlight printing
Weatherlight WTH · No. 81 1997-06-09

Card text

{4}{B}{B}
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.
EDHREC rank #25947 Common Not on the Reserved List
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Standard ∅ Not legal
Pioneer ∅ Not legal
Modern ∅ Not legal
Legacy ✓ Legal
Vintage ✓ Legal
Pauper ✓ Legal
Commander ✓ Legal
Oathbreaker ✓ Legal
Brawl ∅ Not legal
Historic ∅ Not legal
Timeless ∅ Not legal
Alchemy ∅ Not legal
Explorer ∅ Not legal
Gladiator ∅ Not legal
Penny ∅ Not legal
Duel ✓ Legal

Official rulings

5 rulings · in English, source Scryfall

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 · Wizards of the Coast

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 · Wizards of the Coast

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

2008-04-01 · Wizards of the Coast

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 · Wizards of the Coast

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 · Wizards of the Coast

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