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Sunbird's Invocation

Enchantment MV 6

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What it does

Whenever you cast a spell from your hand, reveal the top X cards of your library, where X is that spell's mana value. You may cast a spell with mana value X or less from among cards revealed this way without paying its mana cost. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Combos with Sunbird's Invocation

Lines this card is part of — what it needs alongside it, and what the two of them do. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.

Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.

Rulings

8 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2017-09-29

    If you cast one of the revealed cards, you do so as part of the resolution of the triggered ability. You can't wait to cast it later in the turn. Timing permissions based on the card's type are ignored, but other restrictions (such as "Cast [this card] only during combat") are not.

  • 2017-09-29

    For spells with X in their mana costs, use the value chosen for X to determine the spell's mana value.

  • 2017-09-29

    If you cast a card "without paying its mana cost," you can't pay any alternative costs. You can, however, pay additional costs. If the card has any mandatory additional costs, such as that of Costly Plunder, those must be paid to cast the card.

  • 2017-09-29

    Casting Sunbird's Invocation won't cause its own ability to trigger.

  • 2017-09-29

    If the spell's mana value is 0, you do nothing as the ability of Sunbird's Invocation resolves.

  • 2017-09-29

    The ability of Sunbird's Invocation resolves before the spell that caused it to trigger. It will resolve even if that spell is countered. If you cast a spell as part of the resolution of the ability, that spell resolves before the spell that caused the ability to trigger.

  • 2017-09-29

    The mana value of a split card, such as cards with aftermath from the Amonkhet block, is based on the combined mana cost of its two halves. The mana value of the resulting spell is based only on the half you cast.

  • 2017-09-29

    If a revealed card in your library has X in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost.

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

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Sunbird's Invocation, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 6
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
Bello, Bard of the Brambles 2 0 —
Smaug the Impenetrable 1 0 —
Tannuk, Steadfast Second 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Gruul 2 decks
  • Rakdos 1 deck
  • Mono-Red 1 deck

Every version of Sunbird's Invocation

6 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 Sunbird's Invocation — 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.