Wake the Past

Wake the Past

Mana Cost: {5}{R}{W}

Type: Sorcery

Oracle Text:
Return all artifact cards from your graveyard to the battlefield. They gain haste until end of turn.

Power/Toughness: -/-

Rarity: rare

Prints: View all prints (1) →

Expansion: Fallout

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Character Background

Wake the Past provides a late-game reset button that returns every artifact from your graveyard to the battlefield with haste, so it's at its best in artifact-value or combo shells that both stock the graveyard and finish from a sudden board swing. At seven total mana it's not a tempo play early, but it creates immediate tempo when you slam a graveyard full of aggressive artifact creatures, mana rocks and equipments — or outright combo when paired with Thopter Foundry + Sword of the Meek style engines. Deckbuilding: pack low-cost, high-impact artifact ETB pieces and ways to self-mill/discard (or a sacrifice outlet to reuse enter-the-battlefield triggers) and include ways to protect key artifacts after they return. Also consider including Vehicles and cheap equipments that can attack or enable utility right away; the haste matters. In short, build toward value and redundancy: feed your graveyard, then Wake the Past to convert wasted cards into an instant, often game-ending board state.

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