Price$7.01 – $12.19
Buy on TCGplayerDawn's Truce
Instant
LegalCard DrawRank #375
Gift a card (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, they draw a card before its other effects.)
You and permanents you control gain hexproof until end of turn. If the gift was promised, permanents you control also gain indestructible until end of turn.
KeywordsGift
Why is this card good?
Dawn's Truce is a flexible, cheap protection spell that scales with how desperate your board state is.
For just two mana you get blanket hexproof for yourself and your whole battlefield until end of turn — that alone fogs targeted removal, edicts targeting you, and counters opposing burn-to-face strategies. Add the gift (giving an opponent a single card) and your permanents also gain indestructible, which means you survive a board wipe like Wrath of God or Blasphemous Act while keeping everything.
That makes this a premium answer for token swarms, go-wide aggro, and Voltron/Commander-damage decks that fold to one sweeper or one removal spell. It's also great in white-heavy combo or tax decks that need to protect a key engine through interaction.
The gift downside is real but minor — a single card to one opponent rarely swings a game you're already winning.
Skip it in low-creature control shells where you have nothing to protect, or if you want pure efficiency over a do-everything instant. It's reactive, so don't overload on these.
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