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Banishing Light

Enchantment MV 3

Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.

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What it doesRulingsIn the 99Every version

What it does

When this enchantment enters, exile target nonland permanent an opponent controls until this enchantment leaves the battlefield.

Rulings

4 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2025-07-25

    If Banishing Light leaves the battlefield before its triggered ability resolves, the target permanent won’t be exiled.

  • 2025-07-25

    If an Aura is exiled this way, its owner chooses what it will enchant as it returns to the battlefield. An Aura put onto the battlefield this way doesn’t target anything (so it could be attached to a permanent an opponent controls with hexproof, for example), but the Aura’s enchant ability restricts what it can be attached to. If the Aura can’t legally be attached to anything, it remains in exile for the rest of the game.

  • 2025-07-25

    Auras attached to the exiled permanent will be put into their owners’ graveyards. Any Equipment will become unattached and remain on the battlefield. Any counters on the exiled permanent will cease to exist. When the card returns to the battlefield, it will be a new object with no connection to the card that was exiled.

  • 2025-07-25

    If a token is exiled this way, it will cease to exist and won’t return to the battlefield.

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Banishing Light, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 4
Games played 0
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games — not enough to publish a rate yet.
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Éowyn, Shieldmaiden 1 0 —
Isperia, Supreme Judge 1 0 —
Shorikai, Genesis Engine 1 0 —
Sovereign Okinec Ahau 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Azorius 2 decks
  • Selesnya 1 deck
  • Jeskai 1 deck

Every version of Banishing Light

17 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly — a printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall genuinely publishes none for some of them.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Banishing Light — a name search across every version, for the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.

Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only — no individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.