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Moonlit Wake

Enchantment

Whenever a creature dies, you gain 1 life.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Mercadian Masques
Price
$0.30
EDHREC rank
#21023
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Moonlit Wake card art
Moonlit Wake drains each opponent for one life every time you sacrifice a creature, and gains you that life — no mana required, just bodies going to the bin. In any deck running Warren Soultrader or similar sacrifice engines, this is a passive kill condition that runs on resources you're already spending.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Moonlit Wake does real work — sacrifice loops are endemic to the format, opponents start at 40 life, and a zero-activation enchantment that pings all three opponents simultaneously scales in ways 1v1 never allows. Legacy and Vintage are both legal homes, but Moonlit Wake is too slow and too low-impact to compete in those formats where the bar for enchantments is set by cards with immediate board presence. Oathbreaker is legal and mirrors Commander's multiplayer math, making it a reasonable include in the right shell there too.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.30 bulk tier

At $0.30, Moonlit Wake sits firmly in bulk territory — this is a pick-it-up-while-you're-ordering-anyway card. Bulk rares with niche combo applications can tick up when a new commander pushes the archetype, but at this price you're not making a bet, you're just playing a card.

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