Approach of the Second Sun

Sorcery

If this spell was cast from your hand and you've cast another spell named Approach of the Second Sun this game, you win the game. Otherwise, put this card into this owner's library seventh from the top and you gain 7 life.

Combos

• Approach of the Second Sun + Boseiju, Who Shelters All

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Freeform	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (47)

indieinside on Have a Gneiss Day!

3 weeks ago

I love Barren Glory because it mimics my all-time favorite Unglued card The Cheese Stands Alone. I have it as the Win-Con in my Super Friends build.

Vedalken Orrery would let you play that win directly before your turn.

Worldfire is another choice to add in exchange for Apocalypse.

Other options to help reduce CMC for the overall combo would be cards like Oblivion Ring, blowing up Barren Glory at a later time.

I personally think that going with the Barren Glory and Mindslaver are better with Blue splashed into the build. One, because Blue gives you more options to pop off Barren Glory on the opponents’ turn. And Mindslaver can go infinite with Academy Ruins on a single player.

A super cool Alt-Win you might consider would be Approach of the Second Sun.

indieinside on Commodore Guff is sexy af

1 month ago

I agree about Commodore Guff's sexiness. I am running a zero creature super friends build with him. Even though you have a few creatures, if you can afford it, I definitely recommend HumilityGC. My win con is a little too elaborate, but I do it for nostalgia. Approach of the Second Sun would be a cool win option.

indieinside on Atraxa's Counter Top

1 month ago

The only thing off the cuff that I can think of in that bracket right now would be an Alt-Win Con that I haven't seen many people play. what do you think about Approach of the Second Sun?

indieinside on Courtesy of the red, white and blue

1 month ago

A super random off chance Win-Con that might be cool for this deck would be Approach of the Second Sun. May not be a good fit, but it is a pretty cool random win possibility.

Caerwyn on Does shadow of the second …

3 months ago

Before answering your question, I did want to address that your foundational assumption is a bit flawed.

Under the Magic Tournament rules, you do not have to name a specific card in order to use an effect like Nevermore. What you must do is provide enough specificity to clearly identify the card you are trying to name. Context and intent is a factor in that decision, as are common colloquialisms. If Both "Approach" and "Second Sun", as phrases, might appear on multiple cards, but as a colloquialism in Magic, they only ever refer to Approach of the Second Sun. Accordingly, the usage of either phrase clearly telegraphs the intent of the user as to what specific card they wanted to hit with a Nevermore style effect.

Thus, under the tournament rules, you would pretty certainly be in the wrong when you used your "Gotcha! I have a similarly named card!" The other player provided more than enough specificity to identify their intent to hit Approach of the Second Sun, and therefore that intent and identification should be considered valid.

Designing a deck specifically for a "gotcha" moment very well might violate the social contract of playing games with friends, so buyer beware before doing something that is fairly certain to be frowned upon by your friends.

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Regarding your actual question, multiple copies will trigger independently and give you an additional beginning phase per trigger resolution.

Supersaulty on Does shadow of the second …

3 months ago

Stumbled on this card because I built an Approach of the Second Sun deck and I know there are spells out there that let you name a spell and search for all spells with that name. Knowing my play group they will either just say approach or just say second sun (at least once until I tell them too bad they can't take that spell, they can still search but if they want to break my deck then they will have to remember word for word the names of spells if they want to run that lmao). Anyway, searched just second sun and this gem popped out and since I'm running white and blue it would be perfect. Just want to know if it stacks. I guess the only benefit for me if it does stack would be the added draw as the only 3 nonland permanents in the deck are Solemnity, Nine Lives (both just to buy time), and Chromatic Lantern.

RiotRunner789 on Beta Brackets Update Today

4 months ago

Not a fan of the 'just counter' or 'have removal' argument. It assumes you have Mana left open. It assumes you didn't remove a threat on the turn before a player casts Coalition Victory.

Just about every other 'I win' card either gives you a full turn like Happily Ever After or lets you know it's coming like Approach of the Second Sun. If you used all your mana actually doing things on your turn, Coalition Victory burns you. It just creates a tax against non-five color decks. Now they have to assume if the WUBRG deck has 8 Mana, they can just win (which isn't that fun).

x0100011010x on All players win?

6 months ago

I think that trying to get to a draw through Divine Intervention (clearly how the card is intended to work) is not nearly as interesting as actually trying to make every player win (which would require obviously doing something unintended)

Za above figured out a way to make every player lose the game, which is very related but different imo.

I am sure that "legally" there is some resolution order to this combo I describe below. However, I think it is much more interesting and would be much more surprised than someone just playing Divine Intervention

Most "you win" card (in this article https://draftsim.com/you-win-the-game-mtg/ ) triggers on upkeep or end step, so you couldn't share that victory.

Halo Fountain, Helix Pinnacle, and Maze's End all let a player win through an ability. But abilities go on the stack and I am not aware (I also didn't even look it up though) of anything that lets you copy abilities for other players.

Curse of Echoes on yourself, then Coalition Victory or Thassa's OracleGC would work. Approach of the Second Sun has an annoying clause which prevents copies of it from working for other players. Unfortunately, Coalition Victory would require you giving the other player control of 3-4 creatures and 3-4 lands, so is infeasible. Thassa's OracleGC might work if you get their deck down to zero cards (a way is described below), or a few if they have blue.

Twenty-Toed Toad notably lets you win in your attack step. I'm unsure how you would have multiple players attacking in one step. However, I was reviewing all the cards in the link above, and if you cast Ramses, Assassin Lord; enchant Twenty-Toed Toad to be an Assassin; have your opponent gain control of Twenty-Toed Toad (like with Custody Battle and then destroying it, give them 20 +1/+1 counters, and your opponent attacks you: They would win, so you would lose, and you had previously controlled the Assassin Toad, who attacked you this turn, so Ramses makes you win.

Giving everyone Jace, Wielder of Mysteries; or Laboratory Maniac, or copies of them; then casting Leveler and giving copies of them; and then casting something like Burning Inquiry should also work I think. You could have two of Jace/Maniac and cast two Fractured Identity to get that to happen. This route allows even more than 2 players to win.

I mean, if you declare that your objective is to make the game end in a draw... and you do that... then you won, right? Sorta?

If I pulled off either above combo, I would not feel sorta? good, I would feel like I just shattered a fundamental assumption all planeswalkers have made since before the Eldrazi were found, and rejoice