SORCERY
Green Sun's Zenith
Search your library for a green creature card with mana value X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. Shuffle Green Sun's Zenith into its owner's library.
FORMATS
CommanderSTAPLE 2.3%
Brawl (Historic)STAPLE 5.9%
DraftEOE#263/321Draft2X2#111/332StandardNOT LEGAL
ModernSTAPLE 6.7%
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Comments & Rulings · 7
- Wizards of the Coast2011-06-01 · official rulingIf this spell doesn't resolve, none of its effects occur. In particular, it will go to the graveyard rather than to its owner's library.
- Wizards of the Coast2016-06-08 · official rulingIn most cases, if you own Green Sun's Zenith and cast it, you'll shuffle your library twice. In practice, shuffling once is sufficient, but effects that care about you shuffling your library (like Psychogenic Probe, for example) will see that you've shuffled twice.
- Wizards of the Coast2016-06-08 · official rulingIf Green Sun's Zenith is countered, none of its effects will happen. Notably, it will be put into its owner's graveyard rather than shuffled into its owner's library.
- Wizards of the Coast2016-06-08 · official rulingIf you own Green Sun's Zenith, but an opponent casts it (due to Knowledge Pool's effect, for example), that opponent searches their library for an appropriate creature card, then shuffles that library. That opponent then shuffles Green Sun's Zenith into your library. You won't shuffle any library in this case.
- Wizards of the Coast2015-02-03Green Sun's Zenith was banned in modern on February 3, 2015. Green Sun's Zenith was removed mostly for diversity's sake among green decks.Indexed from A Brief History of the Modern Banned List.
- Green Sun's Zenith was unbanned in modern on December 16, 2024. Banned during a time where green decks were too strong, the card offered a level of consistency and flexibility that was difficult to combat, often narrowing the range of cards you'd consider playing. To help increase metagame diversity, Green Sun's Zenith is unbanned in Modern.Indexed from Banned and Restricted Announcement – December 16, 2024.
- Green Sun's Zenith was banned in modern on September 20, 2011. On turn one, this can give the acceleration of a Llanowar Elves by getting a Dryad Arbor. However, this ends up with fewer different decks being played in practice, as Green Sun's Zenith is such a good choice that there are fewer green decks that do anything else. The DCI hopes that banning Green Sun's Zenith increases diversity among Modern green decks.Indexed from Explanation of September 2011 B&R Changes.