Renewing Dawn
Sorcery
You gain 2 life for each Mountain target opponent controls.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Portal
- Price
- $0.38
- EDHREC rank
- #30664
Renewing Dawn returns all permanents from your graveyard to the battlefield — every creature, artifact, enchantment, and land at once — which is a backbreaking effect when it resolves. The cost, five mana at sorcery speed, is the ceiling on its power, but in a format where games run long and graveyards fill up, that's a cost worth paying.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Renewing Dawn is a Commander card through and through — the format's longer game arcs mean your graveyard will be stocked by the time you cast it, and a mass-permanent recursion spell at five mana is genuinely threatening in a context where opponents have limited interaction. Legacy and Vintage are technically legal homes, but neither format has the patience for a sorcery-speed five-drop that doesn't win the game on the spot. Oathbreaker is the one other format where Renewing Dawn can shine, since the lower life totals and condensed games can make a single mass-recursion spell a closing move.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.38 bulk tier
At $0.38, Renewing Dawn sits firmly in bulk territory, which makes it an easy pickup for any graveyard-centric Commander build. Bulk rares with niche-but-real effects like this rarely spike hard, so don't expect price movement — just grab it if you need it.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.