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Sylvan Awakening

Sorcery

Until your next turn, all lands you control become 2/2 Elemental creatures with reach, indestructible, and haste. They're still lands.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
rare
Set
Dominaria Promos
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#4879
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Sylvan Awakening card art
Sylvan Awakening turns every land you control into an indestructible 2/2 creature until end of turn — at three mana, that's a board of anywhere from ten to twenty power out of nowhere. The cost is real: it's a one-shot sorcery, so redundancy matters, and it shines brightest in decks like Jolrael, Voice of Zhalfir that reward land-creatures or in combat loops enabled by Aggravated Assault.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Jolrael, Voice of Zhalfir

Jolrael, Voice of Zhalfir

66.5% of decks · synergy 0.65

Jolrael, Voice of Zhalfir's triggered ability cares specifically about lands becoming creatures, and Sylvan Awakening delivers that trigger on a massive scale in a single cast — every land animating at once can generate a wave of 1/1 bird tokens and pump Jolrael's own power to lethal.

02
Jyoti, Moag Ancient

Jyoti, Moag Ancient

63.1% of decks · synergy 0.61

Jyoti, Moag Ancient creates Forest land tokens whenever lands enter, and Sylvan Awakening converts that entire accumulated landbase into an attacking army — the synergy is straightforward but the payoff scales hard with how many lands Jyoti has generated over the course of the game.

03
Bumi, Unleashed

Bumi, Unleashed

33.4% of decks · synergy 0.32

Bumi, Unleashed cares about having large creatures on board, and Sylvan Awakening can instantly produce a squadron of 2/2 indestructibles to satisfy that threshold and swing wide in the same turn.

04
Yedora, Grave Gardener

Yedora, Grave Gardener

34.0% of decks · synergy 0.32

Yedora, Grave Gardener turns nontoken creatures dying into Forest lands, so a late-game Sylvan Awakening reanimates that entire graveyard-fueled landbase as a combat-ready board with indestructibility to protect it.

05
Duskana, the Rage Mother

Duskana, the Rage Mother

18.5% of decks · synergy 0.18

Duskana, the Rage Mother pumps colorless creatures, and the 2/2 land-creatures from Sylvan Awakening are colorless — casting it mid-combat turns your whole mana base into a Duskana-boosted army that hits harder than it looks.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Sylvan Awakening is legal across Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it has found a home almost exclusively in Commander. In competitive constructed formats the card is too slow and too dependent on a large landbase to matter — three mana for creatures that vanish at end of turn doesn't clear the bar in Modern or Legacy, where games end before land counts get impressive. Commander is where Sylvan Awakening earns its slot: games go long, land counts balloon with ramp, and the combination of indestructibility and wide board presence is genuinely threatening in a multiplayer environment where sweepers are common.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

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Aggravated AssaultSylvan Awakening

Aggravated AssaultSylvan Awakening

Infinite combat phases; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce; Infinite mana lands you control can produce; Infinite untap of creatures you control; Infinite untap of lands you control

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Price Context

Current price

unknown tier

Pricing data for Sylvan Awakening isn't currently available in our index, so check Scryfall or your preferred retailer for a current number. Given its niche role as a land-animation payoff in specific commanders, it has historically sat in the bulk-to-low-value range and is unlikely to be a budget obstacle.

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