Card
Sands of Time
Mana cost {4}
Each player skips their untap step. At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player simultaneously untaps each tapped artifact, creature, and land they control and taps each untapped artifact, creature, and land they control.
Part of 4 known combos, 4 of them two-card. 3 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Rare · VIS · #153
- Cheapest printing
- €3.01
- EDHREC salt
- 1.09
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — Not in the same deck as its two-card combo partners: Strionic Resonator, Lithoform Engine, Awakening, Tawnos, Urza's Apprentice
- B2 Core — Not in the same deck as its two-card combo partners: Strionic Resonator, Lithoform Engine, Awakening, Tawnos, Urza's Apprentice
- B3 Upgraded — Not in the same deck as its early two-card combo partners: Strionic Resonator, Lithoform Engine, Awakening, Tawnos, Urza's Apprentice
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- Two-card combo with Strionic Resonator, Lithoform Engine, Awakening, Tawnos, Urza's Apprentice (early with Strionic Resonator, Lithoform Engine, Awakening, Tawnos, Urza's Apprentice)
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
4 known combos, 4 of them two-card.
- Strionic Resonator + Sands of Time
Produces: Infinite untap of permanents you control, Infinite mana permanents you control can produce
View on Commander Spellbook - Lithoform Engine + Sands of Time
Produces: Infinite untap of permanents you control, Infinite mana permanents you control can produce
View on Commander Spellbook - Awakening + Sands of Time
Produces: Tap all lands and creatures opponents control during each of your turns, Tap all lands and creatures during each opponent's upkeep step, Lock
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2009-10-01 · Wizards of the Coast
You can tap lands for mana before Sands of Time toggles your permanents. The mana you gain is available during your upkeep step, but it will disappear before your draw step if you don't spend it. You cannot save it to be spent on the card you will draw this turn. - 2008-08-01 · Wizards of the Coast
Skipping the untap step means that phased out cards won't phase in, and permanents with phasing won't phase out. - 2004-10-04 · Wizards of the Coast
This card still affects players when it is tapped.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast