Wakening Sun's Avatar
Creature — Dinosaur Avatar
When this creature enters, if you cast it from your hand, destroy all non-Dinosaur creatures.
- CMC
- 8
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Commander Masters
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #3094
Wakening Sun's Avatar hits the table and destroys every non-Dinosaur creature your opponents control — a one-sided board wipe stapled to an 8/8 with vigilance. Eight mana is the asking price, but in Pantlaza, Sun-Favored decks that trigger enrage and discover chains, you're often getting it for free off a cascade hit.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Pantlaza, Sun-Favored
Pantlaza, Sun-Favored's discover trigger can put Wakening Sun's Avatar directly onto the battlefield, converting the enter-the-battlefield wipe into a zero-mana board clear that leaves your Dinosaurs standing.
Gishath, Sun's Avatar
Gishath, Sun's Avatar swings through and dumps Wakening Sun's Avatar straight from the library onto the battlefield, where its ETB immediately punishes any opponent who let non-Dinosaurs survive the attack.
Zacama, Primal Calamity
Zacama, Primal Calamity already asks you to ramp into the stratosphere, and Wakening Sun's Avatar slots in as a reset button — cast it in the same window you're untapping all your lands and the wipe costs you almost nothing in tempo.
Ghalta and Mavren
Ghalta and Mavren wants the board clear Wakening Sun's Avatar provides, since wiping non-Dinosaur blockers opens the lane for a lethal attack while leaving your own creatures untouched.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Wakening Sun's Avatar is a Commander card through and through — eight mana doesn't clear the bar in competitive eternal formats where the game ends before you cast it, and it sees essentially zero Legacy or Modern play despite being technically legal. In Pioneer it's similarly irrelevant outside of casual ramp brews. Commander is where Wakening Sun's Avatar earns its keep: the singleton format's longer games, abundant ramp, and discover/cheat effects make the cost manageable, and a one-sided Wrath on a body is genuinely powerful in a multiplayer context.
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Price Context
Current price
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.