Godhead of Awe

Creature — Spirit Avatar

Flying
Other creatures have base power and toughness 1/1.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{W/U}{W/U}{W/U}{W/U}{W/U}
Color identity
UW
Rarity
rare
Set
Shadowmoor
Price
$3.80
EDHREC rank
#19758
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Godhead of Awe card art
Godhead of Awe turns every opposing creature into a 1/1, a board-wide nerf that rivals Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite for sheer impact — except it hits your creatures too, so it only belongs in decks built to ignore that downside. Six mana for a 4/4 flier with that static ability is a real card, but the symmetry is the whole game.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander
legacy
modern
pioneer
standard
vintage
pauper
oathbreaker

In Commander, Godhead of Awe is a niche but punishing include for Azorius enchantment or control builds that can consistently go wide with tokens or pump a single evasive threat — the symmetry is a feature, not a bug, if your creatures aren't creatures when it matters. Legacy and Vintage both have faster, cleaner answers and combo clocks that make a six-mana do-nothing-immediately permanent a liability; it sees essentially zero competitive play in either format. Modern is technically legal but the same problem applies: six mana with no immediate effect is too slow for a format defined by threats that end games on turn three or four.

Key Combos

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Price Context

Current price

$3.80 cheap tier

At $3.80, Godhead of Awe sits in the budget-mythic tier — expensive enough to feel like a deliberate include, cheap enough that the price isn't the barrier to running it. Demand is narrow given how many decks it actively hurts, so the price is stable rather than rising.

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