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Spinning Darkness

{4}{B}{B}

Instant

WTHWeatherlight#81common
Border
black
Frame
1997
Pull rate
~1 in 6
Illustrator
John Coulthart
Found in
Weatherlight Booster Pack
Printings1
CommanderLegalModernNot legalStandardNot legal
Format legality
AlchemyNot legal
BrawlNot legal
CommanderLegal
Competitive BrawlNot legal
DuelLegal
Future StandardNot legal
GladiatorNot legal
HistoricNot legal
LegacyLegal
ModernNot legal
OathbreakerLegal
Old SchoolNot legal
PauperLegal
Pauper CommanderLegal
PennyNot legal
PioneerNot legal
PreDHLegal
PremodernLegal
StandardNot legal
Standard BrawlNot legal
TimelessNot legal
Tiny LeadersNot legal
VintageLegal
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.

Plays as: Cost Alternative

Market · per finishspark updated 52m ago · prices as of 2026-07-12
Nonfoil+0.0%
$0.88
$0.25 low$0.08 gap
Cheapest playable copy$0.88· across 1 printing

Rulings

5 · latest Apr 1, 2008 · one tap opens all
  • WotCApr 1, 2008

    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.

  • WotCApr 1, 2008

    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.

  • WotCApr 1, 2008

    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.

  • WotCApr 1, 2008

    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.

  • WotCApr 1, 2008

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