Fearsome Awakening
Sorcery
Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. If it's a Dragon, put two +1/+1 counters on it.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Fate Reforged
- Price
- $0.22
- EDHREC rank
- #13918
Fearsome Awakening returns any creature from your graveyard to the battlefield and puts two +1/+1 counters on it — unconditional reanimation at five mana with a small upside baked in. It earns its slot when you're recurring expensive Dragons or value creatures like Scholar of the Ages, though Sivitri, Dragon Master decks are the clearest home given how naturally it fits the discard-then-reanimate gameplan.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Sivitri, Dragon Master
Sivitri, Dragon Master tutors Dragons directly into the graveyard, and Fearsome Awakening gets them back onto the battlefield with extra counters — a tight two-card loop that turns any Dragon too expensive to cast into a guaranteed threat by turn six.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Fearsome Awakening is a Commander card through and through — five mana for reanimation is too slow in every competitive Constructed format, where Reanimate and Animate Dead do the same job for one mana. In Legacy and Vintage it simply doesn't compete. Modern and Pioneer have enough payoffs that it's technically playable, but you'd be choosing it over faster, cheaper options with no meaningful upside. In Commander, the five-mana cost is acceptable, the +1/+1 counters occasionally matter, and any deck willing to pay five to reanimate a creature without restriction gets a clean, uncountered-by-most-effects effect.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Scholar of the AgesSacrificeFearsome Awakening
Infinite black mana; Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite magecraft triggers; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite storm count; Return all instant and sorcery cards from your graveyard to your hand
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Scholar of the AgesBurnt OfferingFearsome Awakening
Infinite black mana; Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite magecraft triggers; Infinite red mana; Infinite storm count; Return all instant and sorcery cards from your graveyard to your hand
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Current price
$0.22 bulk tier
At $0.22, Fearsome Awakening is deep bulk — you're picking this out of a dollar bin or grabbing a playset for under a dollar. Bulk rares rarely appreciate unless a competitive format finds them, and nothing in Fearsome Awakening's text points that direction, so buy it to play it and don't expect the price to move.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.