Dark Salvation

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Dark Salvation: Sorcery, Midnight Hunt Commander. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.

Mana cost
{X}{X}{B}
Mana value
1
Type
Sorcery
Colour identity
Black (B)
Rarity
Rare
Set
Midnight Hunt Commander (MIC)
Released
2021-09-24
Collector number
110
Artist
Cynthia Sheppard
Commander rank
7,568 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)

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About Dark Salvation

Dark Salvation is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare black sorcery from Midnight Hunt Commander (MIC), a Commander product released in September 2021. It is collector number 110 in that set, with art by Cynthia Sheppard. It costs {X}{X}{B} (two times X and one black mana) to cast, for a mana value of 1. Its colour identity is black. It is legal in Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Historic, Timeless, Gladiator and Penny Dreadful. It has been printed in 5 sets, from Eldritch Moon (2016) to Shadows over Innistrad Remastered (2023). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.57 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-11).

Card text

Target player creates X 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens, then up to one target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each Zombie that player controls.

Countless ghouls surged through Thraben's streets, and with them came the city's salvation.

Market price

Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.57 (as of 2026-11-11).

The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.

Format legality

Legality of Dark Salvation by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.

PioneerLegal
ModernLegal
LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
CommanderLegal
Duel CommanderLegal
OathbreakerLegal
BrawlLegal
HistoricLegal
TimelessLegal
GladiatorLegal
Penny DreadfulLegal

Other printings of Dark Salvation

Dark Salvation has been printed in 5 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.

PrintingRarityYear
Shadows over Innistrad Remastered (SIR) #105Rare2023
Jumpstart: Historic Horizons (J21) #308Rare2021
Eldritch Moon (EMN) #87Rare2016
Eldritch Moon Promos (PEMN) #87sRare2016

Official rulings

Three official rulings apply to Dark Salvation, newest first.

  • You may cast Dark Salvation with X as 0 just to have a creature get -1/-1 for each Zombie a player controls, and you may cast it without targeting any creature just to have a player get Zombie tokens. If you really just want to cast a spell, you can even cast it with X as 0 without a target creature and have neither effect do anything.
  • You choose up to one target creature total, not a separate target for each Zombie that player controls.
  • If the targeted creature becomes an illegal target, the targeted player will still get Zombie tokens.

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