Jolted Awake

Jolted Awake

Mana Cost: {W}

Type: Sorcery

Oracle Text:
Choose up to one target artifact or creature card in your graveyard. You get {E}{E} (two energy counters). Then you may pay an amount of {E} equal to that card's mana value. If you do, return it from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Power/Toughness: -/-

Rarity: common

Prints: View all prints (3) →

Expansion: Modern Horizons 3

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Character Background

Jolted Awake is a compact white recursion spell that feels like a spark of life returning to something discarded and dormant, and its gameplay role is just as practical as its name suggests. In Modern Horizons 3, it most naturally supports a value or midrange plan, where cheap creatures and utility artifacts can be bought back while also advancing your resource economy with two energy counters. Because it only asks for one white mana, the card can be slotted into decks that want flexibility more than raw power, and cycling for {2} keeps it from being dead in matchups where graveyard targets are scarce. The best targets are low-cost permanents with strong enter-the-battlefield effects or artifacts that generate immediate advantage, since paying energy equal to mana value rewards efficient curve construction. Pair it with energy producers or self-mill/discard tools to ensure you can fuel the reanimation clause consistently, and consider it especially strong in grindy control shells that want to rebuy key threats while staying mana-efficient.

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