Banishing Light

Enchantment

When this enters, exile target nonland permanent an opponent controls until this enchantment leaves the battlefield. (That permanent returns under its owner's control.)

Combos

• Banishing Light + Protean Thaumaturge

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Alchemy	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
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pauper	Legal
Pauper Duel Commander	Legal
Pauper EDH	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Pre-release	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Standard	Legal
Standard Brawl	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (48)

LunchBox1211 on Aces in Exile

1 week ago

After some more pauper experience, I'm going to take Grubbernaut's advice regarding Journey to Nowhere. Banishing Light is going in side board just in case I do need them, and I'm removing Oblivion Ring because it's more expensive IRL.

Yesterday on Whose onus is it to …

2 months ago

If I'm playing a game of Judge Tower and am the monarch and lose the game, the next player in turn order is meant to become the monarch.

Also for the sake of argument, in the variant where card 'ownership' matters, another one of my opponents has taken control of a vanilla creature I own with Confiscate, and that permanent should be exiled when I lose the game.

Also also, another one of my opponents has my other vanilla creature exiled under their Banishing Light, which when I lose, should be... exiled.

I forget about all of, or perhaps chose not to perform any of these interactions. We all hate our lives and there is for some reason a fifth player in the game who I haven't interacted with, and they spot all of this. Who loses?

trojenpig on do cards like Dark Impostor …

2 months ago

so I'm building the new Mimeoplasm, Revered One for commander and there's a few things I'm looking for clarification on
1st can I use ability's like Oona, Queen of the Fae or Shauku, Endbringer to add to to the cards that copy with mimeoplasm assuming that I copy there ability first. 2ed if I can, what happens if I exile a commander I know effects like Banishing Light have wired interactions with the command zone so if I banish a commander can I still copy its ability's or ones it leaves the exile is it just gone and dose the same applies to ability's like Nephalia Smuggler

wallisface on Why Did WotC Change the …

4 months ago

DemonDragonJ its likely that Banishing Light is getting the reprint because its rules text more closely fits with the current 2024 wording for designs like this. It’s also easier to grok for new players getting into the game. I don’t see the comparison between this and Lotus Vale being at-all close.

DemonDragonJ on Why Did WotC Change the …

4 months ago

wallisface, do you believe that that is why WotC is no longer reprinting Oblivion Ring and instead reprinting Banishing Light?

Vivctius on Cats In Claws Out

5 months ago

What an amazing performance for the first time with the deck, 2-1-0 on the first local tornament putting it on 3rd from a poll of 8 players. Here is a more indepth analysis of the matches:

1st match (Gates): 2-1 by far the easiest match to go up against even when they sideboarded in Authority of the Consuls and dropped two of them, we still made quick work with our early swarm of cats.

2nd match (Golgari Aggro): 0-2 where to start, I didn't have all the sideboard finished for the deck but holly hell the Banishing Light is a swiss pocket knife for these match ups if you don't have the board wipes or the reanimates. My recomendation for these type of decks is for you to take a more defensive roll on the second and third match, your cats can wait and slowly grow larger, you need to control Unholy Annex / Ritual Chamber and the Archfiend of the Dross which are the biggest threats by far. Really learned a lot with this match up.

3rd match (Golgari Aggro): 2-1 I know it might come as a suprise but you really learn a lot just by one match up. When I was faced again with the same deck I knew what hands to keep, what to sideboard in, the deck really shined from both sides (aggro the first game/control on the other two). I cannot stress this enough Banishing Light is something you want sideboarded to deal with any threat that appears it's supper versatile.

I've done some changes to the sideboard and I'll keep you posted.

Fluggleshmuggits on Cube Eternal

1 year ago

IN

Anointed Procession
Adeline, Resplendent Cathar
Touch the Spirit Realm
Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines
Stonehewer Giant
Stalactite Stalker
Dauthi Voidwalker
Inti, Seneschal of the Sun
Firebrand Archer
Strangleroot Geist
Wrenn and Realmbreaker
Molten Collapse
Murderous Redcap
Bartolome del Presidio
Sorin, Vengeful Bloodlord
Radha, Heart of Keld
Boseiju, Who Endures
Otawara, Soaring City
Kaldra Compleat

OUT

Seeker of the Way
Archetype of Courage
Banishing Light
Shalai, Voice of Plenty
Reveillark
Changeling Outcast
Eliminate
Subira, Tulzidi Caravanner
Mizzium Tank
Vivien, Champion of the Wilds
Archetype of Endurance
Rakdos Charm
Angrath's Rampage
Sin Collector
Anguished Unmaking
Ancient Grudge
Pendelhaven
Teferi's Isle
Eater of Virtue

Rhadamanthus on Interaction between Araumi of the …

1 year ago

There won't be any "targeting issues". If the source of an ability on the stack goes away, it won't interfere with that ability resolving as normal unless it specifically depends on the source remaining on the battlefield, e.g. a "fight", a Banishing Light-like effect, or a specific restriction in the Oracle text like on Parallax Wave (for that last one, the printed text doesn't have it, you will need to look it up in Gatherer or some other similar reference to see the current errata).