Devouring Light
Devouring Light: Instant, Ravnica Remastered. Convoke. Exile target attacking or blocking creature. Printings, prices, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {1}{W}{W}
- Mana value
- 3
- Type
- Instant
- Colour identity
- White (W)
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Set
- Ravnica Remastered (RVR)
- Released
- 2024-01-12
- Collector number
- 15
- Artist
- Pete Venters
- Commander rank
- 9,706 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
- Keywords
- Convoke
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About Devouring Light
Devouring Light is a Magic: The Gathering card, an uncommon white instant from Ravnica Remastered (RVR), a Masters set released in January 2024. It is collector number 15 in that set, with art by Pete Venters. It costs {1}{W}{W} (one generic and two white mana) to cast, for a mana value of 3. Its colour identity is white. It is legal in Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, PreDH, Brawl, Historic, Timeless, Gladiator and Penny Dreadful. It has been printed in 9 sets, from Ravnica: City of Guilds (2005) to Ravnica Remastered (2024). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.21 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-02).
Card text
Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.)
Exile target attacking or blocking creature.
Into the light the good are welcomed, and with the light the evil are banished.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.21 (as of 2026-11-02).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Devouring Light by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Pioneer | Legal |
|---|---|
| Modern | Legal |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| PreDH | Legal |
| Brawl | Legal |
| Historic | Legal |
| Timeless | Legal |
| Gladiator | Legal |
| Penny Dreadful | Legal |
Other printings of Devouring Light
Devouring Light has been printed in 9 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| The List (PLST) #RVR-15 | Uncommon | 2026 |
| Ravnica Remastered (RVR) #305 | Uncommon | 2024 |
| March of the Machine Commander (MOC) #180 | Uncommon | 2023 |
| Jumpstart 2022 (J22) #175 | Uncommon | 2022 |
| Starter Commander Decks (SCD) #18 | Uncommon | 2022 |
| Jumpstart: Historic Horizons (J21) #67 | Uncommon | 2021 |
| GRN Guild Kit (GK1) #103 | Uncommon | 2018 |
| Magic 2015 (M15) #9 | Uncommon | 2014 |
| Ravnica: City of Guilds (RAV) #13 | Uncommon | 2005 |
Official rulings
Seven official rulings apply to Devouring Light, newest first.
- When calculating a spell's total cost, include any alternative costs, additional costs, or anything else that increases or reduces the cost to cast the spell. Convoke applies after the total cost is calculated. Convoke doesn't change a spell's mana cost or mana value.
- Tapping a multicolored creature using convoke will pay for {1} or one mana of your choice of any of that creature's colors.
- Because convoke isn't an alternative cost, it can be used in conjunction with alternative costs.
- If a creature you control has a mana ability with {T} in the cost, activating that ability while casting a spell with convoke will result in the creature being tapped before you pay the spell's costs. You won't be able to tap it again for convoke. Similarly, if you sacrifice a creature to activate a mana ability while casting a spell with convoke, that creature won't be on the battlefield when you pay the spell's costs, so you won't be able to tap it for convoke.
- You can tap any untapped creature you control to convoke a spell, even one you haven't controlled continuously since the beginning of your most recent turn.
- Tapping an untapped creature that's attacking or blocking to convoke a spell won't cause that creature to stop attacking or blocking.
- The declare blockers step is the last chance to cast Devouring Light before creatures deal their combat damage. However, a creature remains an attacking or blocking creature during the combat damage step and end of combat step. Devouring Light may be cast targeting such a creature during those steps, after the creature has dealt combat damage.
Similar cards
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Devouring Light is in the decklist of these preconstructed Commander decks.