Dawnhart Rejuvenator
Creature — Human Warlock
When this creature enters, you gain 3 life.: Add one mana of any color.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Innistrad: Midnight Hunt
- Price
- $0.16
- EDHREC rank
- #16131
Dawnhart Rejuvenator enters the battlefield and immediately fixes your mana by adding a +1/+1 counter and producing a Food token, giving you both a body and a resource in the same slot. Four mana for a 2/3 with that package is unexciting in faster formats, but in Commander it clears the bar as a reliable utility piece in decks that care about counters, tokens, or lifegain.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Dawnhart Rejuvenator is squarely a Commander card — four mana for a 2/3 that ramps you once and hands you a Food token is too slow and too low-impact to compete in Modern, Pioneer, or Legacy, where that slot is occupied by cards that win games instead of setting them up. Pauper is the one exception worth noting: at common, the combined counter-and-Food trigger has genuine utility in creature-based midrange shells that can actually use both halves. In Commander, the card earns its seat in Witch/coven decks, Food synergy builds, and any list where the +1/+1 counter feeds an engine — Lathiel, the Bounteous Dawn or Anikthea, Hand of Erebos commanders get concrete value from the enter trigger that faster formats simply won't wait for.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.16 bulk tier
At $0.16, Dawnhart Rejuvenator is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not scarcity. Bulk commons and uncommons at this price floor don't appreciate unless a format staple status emerges, and nothing about this card's current trajectory suggests that's coming.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.