Crown of Awe
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has protection from black and from red.
Sacrifice this Aura: Enchanted creature and other creatures that share a creature type with it gain protection from black and from red until end of turn.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Onslaught
- Price
- $0.17
- EDHREC rank
- #22993
Crown of Awe grants protection from black and from red to the enchanted creature and can be sacrificed to give that protection to all your creatures until end of turn — a two-mana aura that doubles as a panic button. It's a narrow card, but in dedicated Voltron or go-wide white decks that fear sweepers like Blasphemous Act or Toxic Deluge, it punches above its bulk price.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Crown of Awe sees essentially no play in Legacy or Vintage, where the threats it answers are outpaced by far more efficient interaction on both sides. Pauper is its most plausible competitive home — protection from black and red covers a significant slice of the format's removal suite, and the sacrifice mode can occasionally blow out an opponent's board wipe. In Commander, Crown of Awe is a fringe include: the protection from black and red is relevant against common removal colors, but the aura's narrow coverage and lack of evasion make it a tough sell over more universal protection pieces.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.17 bulk tier
At $0.17, Crown of Awe is deep bulk — you're not buying this for value, you're buying it because it costs nothing and fills a specific gap. Don't expect the price to move; cards this narrow rarely see the reprint demand that would push them lower or the spike demand that would push them higher.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.