Hibernation's End
Enchantment
Cumulative upkeep 
(At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)
Whenever you pay this enchantment's cumulative upkeep, you may search your library for a creature card with mana value equal to the number of age counters on this enchantment, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Coldsnap
- Price
- $0.89
- EDHREC rank
- #18967
Hibernation's End turns every upkeep into a creature tutor, pulling progressively larger threats from your deck at the cost of a single cumulative upkeep mana per trigger. Five mana to get started is the price of admission, and the card punishes you hard if it gets removed before you've recouped value — but any deck that wants a creature chain from one-drops up to five-drops will find few engines more efficient.
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 |
Commander is the natural home for Hibernation's End — five-mana enchantments that pay off over multiple turns are exactly what 40-life, multiplayer games are built to support, and the creature chain it assembles can fill a toolbox role or close out a game depending on what's in the library. In Legacy and Vintage, it's legal but a non-starter: cumulative upkeep on a do-nothing enchantment is unplayable against decks that win on turns one through three. Modern is legal on paper but faces the same fundamental problem — the format is too fast for a five-mana enchantment that requires three or four additional upkeeps to generate real advantage. Hibernation's End is a Commander card through and through, and that's the only context worth building around it.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.89 bulk tier
At $0.89, Hibernation's End sits in bulk territory despite being a unique repeatable tutor effect with no direct replacement. The price reflects its narrow playability outside Commander and modest inclusion rates, but for the decks that want it, under a dollar is an easy buy-in.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.