Dawn of a New Age
Enchantment
This enchantment enters with a hope counter on it for each creature you control.
At the beginning of your end step, remove a hope counter from this enchantment. If you do, draw a card. Then if this enchantment has no hope counters on it, sacrifice it and you gain 4 life.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #3982
Dawn of a New Age enters and puts a hope counter on each creature you control, then draws you a card whenever one of those creatures dies — a symmetrical counter-distribution that scales directly with your board size. The two-mana cost is almost free for what can become an engine that refills your hand through an entire combat or boardwipe, and Lurrus of the Dream-Den can recur it from the graveyard to reset the counters on a fresh board.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Lurrus of the Dream-Den
Lurrus of the Dream-Den's companion and activated ability both let you replay Dawn of a New Age from the graveyard, meaning each time your creatures die the card replaces itself and you can immediately reload counters on whatever survives.
Aragorn, the Uniter
Aragorn, the Uniter runs a four-color go-wide strategy where a large creature count makes Dawn of a New Age's entry trigger stamp as many hope counters as possible, converting a single board wipe into a full hand refill.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Dawn of a New Age is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it's essentially a Commander card — the multiplayer format is the only one where you reliably have enough creatures in play at once to make the draw engine worth a card slot. In Legacy and Vintage the two-mana enchantment is far too slow against the interaction density of those formats, and you'd rarely have a board wide enough to justify it. Commander is where the math works: drop it into a token or go-wide shell with six or more creatures, and a single boardwipe draws six cards for no additional mana.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
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Pricing data for Dawn of a New Age isn't currently available, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the current market rate before picking up copies. Given its narrow application in go-wide Commander decks, it tends to stay budget-accessible — but verify before buying.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.