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Sigil of the New Dawn

Enchantment

Whenever a creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay {1}{W}. If you do, return that card to your hand.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{3}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
rare
Set
Onslaught
Price
$0.21
EDHREC rank
#16881
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Sigil of the New Dawn card art
Sigil of the New Dawn turns every creature death into a recursive loop — pay 1W and the creature comes back to hand, which means sacrifice outlets like Phyrexian Altar never truly run out of fuel. The cost is real: four mana to cast and a mana tax on every return makes it slow, but in white, this is one of the cleaner engines for grinding through attrition. Brion Stoutarm players in particular run it because it converts every flung creature into a reusable threat.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Brion Stoutarm

Brion Stoutarm

14.0% of decks · synergy 0.14

Brion Stoutarm wants to fling creatures for damage and needs those creatures back — Sigil of the New Dawn closes that loop directly, letting Brion repeat the same high-power creature as many times as you can afford the white mana.

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 the natural home for Sigil of the New Dawn — long games, creature-heavy metas, and access to sacrifice synergies make the recurring value engine worth the four-mana investment. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but has never found a foothold; the mana cost is too steep for formats where games end before enchantments pay off. Modern, Pioneer, Standard, and Pauper are all off the table. Oathbreaker is an edge case where it can shine under the right planeswalker, but realistically this is a Commander card through and through.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.21 bulk tier

At $0.21, Sigil of the New Dawn sits firmly in bulk territory — you're picking this up out of a dollar box, not a binder. Bulk enchantments with niche recursive value rarely spike, so don't expect the price to move unless a popular new commander pushes the archetype.

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