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Dawn Evangel

Enchantment Creature — Human Cleric

Whenever a creature dies, if an Aura you controlled was attached to it, return target creature card with mana value 2 or less from your graveyard to your hand.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Theros Beyond Death
Price
$0.13
EDHREC rank
#21033
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Dawn Evangel card art
Dawn Evangel returns an enchantment from your graveyard to your hand whenever an enchanted creature dies — a recursion engine that compounds naturally in any aura-heavy shell. The cost is real: three mana for a 2/2 with no enters-the-battlefield trigger means it has to earn its keep through repeated activations, and it does exactly that in Gylwain, Casting Director decks running Lightwheel Enhancements and other stackable role auras.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Gylwain, Casting Director

Gylwain, Casting Director

13.4% of decks · synergy 0.13

Gylwain, Casting Director constantly attaches Role tokens to creatures, and Dawn Evangel turns every combat trade or removal spell into a free aura rebuy — the combination means you're rarely losing an enchantment permanently, which keeps Gylwain's ability generating value turn after turn.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Dawn Evangel is a Commander card, full stop — the recursion loop it enables needs the long game and a critical mass of auras that 60-card formats rarely sustain. In Modern and Pioneer it's too slow for the mana cost and too narrow in effect, competing against decks that close the game before the graveyard loop becomes relevant. Legacy is theoretically legal but the card has no place in that format's texture. Commander is where Dawn Evangel earns its slot: enchantress builds, Role-token engines, and any deck that expects its creatures to die repeatedly will get consistent value from it over a long game.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.13 bulk tier

At $0.13, Dawn Evangel is deep bulk — pick it up in any common/uncommon lot or grab a copy at your local store's bulk bin without a second thought. The price reflects its narrow home rather than weak power; it's not going to spike, but it also doesn't need to when a single copy is all you ever want.

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