Banishing Light

Mana cost: {2}{W}
Type: Enchantment
Set: Bloomburrow #1 (common)
Price: $0.21 USD

When this enchantment enters, exile target nonland permanent an opponent controls until this enchantment leaves the battlefield.

Banishing Light has 19 printings, first in Journey into Nyx (2014). EDHREC ranks it #2,391 among Commander cards. It appears most in Éowyn, Shieldmaiden decks (4,401 on EDHREC). 7 public decks on TCG run it. It has 4 official rulings.

Legality

commander: legal
legacy: legal
vintage: legal
pauper: legal
modern: legal
pioneer: legal
standard: legal
brawl: legal

Public decks that run Banishing Light

Call the Spirits - Commander 2015, led by Daxos the Returned
First Flight - Starter Commander Decks, led by Isperia, Supreme Judge
Land's Wrath - Zendikar Rising Commander, led by Obuun, Mul Daya Ancestor
Phantom Premonition - Kaldheim Commander, led by Ranar the Ever-Watchful
Riders of Rohan - Tales of Middle-earth Commander, led by Éowyn, Shieldmaiden
Wade into Battle - Commander 2015, led by Kalemne, Disciple of Iroas
Wade into Battle - Commander Anthology Volume II, led by Kalemne, Disciple of Iroas

Commanders that run Banishing Light most

Deck counts from EDHREC.

Éowyn, Shieldmaiden: 4,401 decks
Zur the Enchanter: 2,235 decks
Zoraline, Cosmos Caller: 1,905 decks
Alela, Artful Provocateur: 1,154 decks
Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines: 1,115 decks
Zedruu the Greathearted: 1,053 decks
Aragorn, King of Gondor: 913 decks
Ketramose, the New Dawn: 873 decks

Often played with Banishing Light

Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.

Rulings

2025-07-25: If Banishing Light leaves the battlefield before its triggered ability resolves, the target permanent won’t be exiled.
2025-07-25: If an Aura is exiled this way, its owner chooses what it will enchant as it returns to the battlefield. An Aura put onto the battlefield this way doesn’t target anything (so it could be attached to a permanent an opponent controls with hexproof, for example), but the Aura’s enchant ability restricts what it can be attached to. If the Aura can’t legally be attached to anything, it remains in exile for the rest of the game.
2025-07-25: Auras attached to the exiled permanent will be put into their owners’ graveyards. Any Equipment will become unattached and remain on the battlefield. Any counters on the exiled permanent will cease to exist. When the card returns to the battlefield, it will be a new object with no connection to the card that was exiled.
2025-07-25: If a token is exiled this way, it will cease to exist and won’t return to the battlefield.