Awaken the Sky Tyrant
Enchantment
When a source an opponent controls deals damage to you, sacrifice this enchantment. If you do, create a 5/5 red Dragon creature token with flying.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Commander 2015
- Price
- $0.20
- EDHREC rank
- #22603
Awaken the Sky Tyrant puts a 5/5 flying token into play the moment an opponent's permanent gets destroyed on your turn — payoff is immediate, no setup required. The catch is the trigger condition: you need opponents to have something worth destroying on your turn, which makes this a strong include in removal-heavy shells and a dead card in anything else.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Awaken the Sky Tyrant actually has room to breathe — four opponents means more permanents to target, more removal spells being cast on your turn, and a longer game where a 5/5 flier token still matters in the late stages. In Legacy and Vintage, the card is technically legal but completely irrelevant; those formats move too fast and demand too much efficiency for a five-mana enchantment with a conditional trigger. Oathbreaker falls somewhere in between: the compressed game state can make the trigger fire more reliably, but the format's smaller scope limits how consistently you'll cash it in.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.20 bulk tier
At $0.20, Awaken the Sky Tyrant is pure bulk — zero financial risk to try it. Bulk rares with niche Commander applications rarely climb unless a synergistic commander spikes in popularity, so don't expect movement, but the entry cost is low enough that the experiment costs nothing.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.