Awaken the Honored Dead
- Mana cost
- {B}{G}{U}
- Type
- Enchantment — Saga
- Set
- Tarkir: Dragonstorm Promos #170s (rare)
(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Destroy target nonland permanent.
II — Mill three cards.
III — You may discard a card. When you do, return target creature or land card from your graveyard to your hand.
Awaken the Honored Dead has 4 printings, first in Tarkir: Dragonstorm (2025). EDHREC ranks it #5,081 among Commander cards. It appears most in Teval, the Balanced Scale decks (9,671 on EDHREC). It has 1 official ruling.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Awaken the Honored Dead most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Teval, the Balanced Scale: 9,671 decks
- Terra, Magical Adept // Esper Terra: 3,840 decks
- Muldrotha, the Gravetide: 3,634 decks
- Tom Bombadil: 3,034 decks
- Teval, Arbiter of Virtue: 1,884 decks
- Sin, Spira's Punishment: 1,073 decks
- Xavier Sal, Infested Captain: 788 decks
- Thranduil, the Elvenking: 753 decks
Often played with Awaken the Honored Dead
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : You don’t choose a target for Awaken the Honored Dead’s final chapter ability at the time it triggers. Rather, a second “reflexive” ability triggers when you discard a card this way. You choose a target for that ability as it goes on the stack. You may choose the card you just discarded as the target or a card that was already in your graveyard. Each player may respond to this triggered ability as normal.