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Abuelo's Awakening

Sorcery

Return target artifact or non-Aura enchantment card from your graveyard to the battlefield with X additional +1/+1 counters on it. It's a 1/1 Spirit creature with flying in addition to its other types.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{X}{3}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
rare
Set
The Lost Caverns of Ixalan
Price
$0.24
EDHREC rank
#14746
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Abuelo's Awakening card art
Abuelo's Awakening returns any artifact or creature from your graveyard and puts +1/+1 counters on it equal to the mana you spent beyond the base cost — the floor is free recursion, the ceiling is a massive threat. It earned a ban in Standard alongside All Will Be One for good reason: the combination of flexible mana investment and instant-speed recursion was simply too efficient.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard banned
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Abuelo's Awakening is banned in Standard, where its combination of scalable recursion and instant speed warped the format. Every other constructed format leaves it legal, though it sees minimal Legacy or Vintage play where the competition for graveyard recursion slots is brutal. Commander is where Abuelo's Awakening finds its home — singleton format means you're rarely assembling the redundant package that made it oppressive, and the longer game gives you the mana to dump into the X cost and recur a genuinely threatening permanent.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.24 bulk tier

At $0.24, Abuelo's Awakening sits firmly in bulk territory despite the Standard ban. Bans don't reliably inflate non-rotating-format prices when Commander demand stays modest, so treat this as a cheap pickup rather than a sleeper.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.