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Banishing Light
Oracle Text
When this enchantment enters, exile target nonland permanent an opponent controls until this enchantment leaves the battlefield.
Card Details
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Character Background
Banishing Light reads like white’s version of a temporary, sanctified imprisonment: for just two mana it buys you a full-phase answer to a creature, planeswalker, artifact, or enchantment by exiling it until the aura dies. It best supports tempo and control plans — early plays that remove a lane-blocker or neutralize a planeswalker while you set up, or midrange decks that need cheap, flexible interaction. Be aware it’s fragile to enchantment removal and sacrifice effects, so build around that weakness: include flicker/blink effects to blink Banishing Light itself (reusing its enter-the-battlefield exile on a new target), or ways to give it protection like hexproof/indestructible effects so the opponent can’t easily undo your tempo. In Limited it’s premium removal; in Constructed it shines in UW tempo or prison shells with card draw and blink synergies, or as a soft lock piece in decks that can keep enchantments on board reliably.
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Character Background
Banishing Light reads like white’s version of a temporary, sanctified imprisonment: for just two mana it buys you a full-phase answer to a creature, planeswalker, artifact, or enchantment by exiling it until the aura dies. It best supports tempo and control plans — early plays that remove a lane-blocker or neutralize a planeswalker while you set up, or midrange decks that need cheap, flexible interaction. Be aware it’s fragile to enchantment removal and sacrifice effects, so build around that weakness: include flicker/blink effects to blink Banishing Light itself (reusing its enter-the-battlefield exile on a new target), or ways to give it protection like hexproof/indestructible effects so the opponent can’t easily undo your tempo. In Limited it’s premium removal; in Constructed it shines in UW tempo or prison shells with card draw and blink synergies, or as a soft lock piece in decks that can keep enchantments on board reliably.
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