Awaken the Ancient
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant Mountain
Enchanted Mountain is a 7/7 red Giant creature with haste. It's still a land.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Magic 2014
- Price
- $0.20
- EDHREC rank
- #20627
Awaken the Ancient turns a Mountain into a 7/7 haste attacker for three mana — the problem is that it dies with the enchantment if anyone removes the land. The payoff is real in dedicated Mountain-count strategies, but the fragility of aura-on-land keeps it out of most competitive lists.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Awaken the Ancient is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it sees essentially no play outside Commander. In competitive non-rotating formats, three mana for a conditional 7/7 that collapses to a single removal spell is too fragile when faster, cleaner threats exist. In Commander, it earns a niche slot in Mountain-heavy or land-animation decks where the enchanted land is already a resource — Awaken the Ancient converts that baseline into a meaningful clock without spending an additional card slot on a creature. Outside those shells, the two-card vulnerability (creature plus enchantment removed together) makes it a liability in a format full of wraths and enchantment hate.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.20 bulk tier
At $0.20, Awaken the Ancient is deep bulk — easy to pick up, zero financial risk. Demand is narrow enough that the price is unlikely to move unless a high-profile land-animation commander drives sudden interest.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.