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Spinning Darkness, art by John Coulthart
Art by John Coulthart · ™ & © Wizards of the Coast · image via Scryfall
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checked Jun 14, 2026 · Scryfall
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Spinning Darkness

{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.

Rulings (5)

Apr 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.

Apr 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.

Apr 1, 2008 · The “top” card of your graveyard is the card that was put there most recently.

Apr 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.

Apr 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.

LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
ModernNot legal
PioneerNot legal
StandardNot legal
PauperLegal
PremodernLegal
cEDHLegal

Where it’s played now

Inclusion by archetype · Pauper

% of archetype's lists running it · last 30 days · n=68 decks
ArchetypeFormatInclusionCopiesDecks (n)
Mono Black PestilencePauper50%2
Mono Black SacrificePauper47.1%1–3×17
Golgari GardenPauper36.7%1–2×49
Data as of Jun 14, 2026 · MTGO + papercasthaven.com

Price

Spinning Darkness — price trend

Daily cheapest printing · USD · last 90 days · n=2 snapshots
Data as of Jun 14, 2026 · Scryfallcasthaven.com

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