Animist's Awakening

Oracle Text

Reveal the top X cards of your library. Put all land cards from among them onto the battlefield tapped and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Spell mastery — If there are two or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard, untap those lands.

Card Details

-/-Power / Toughness

XGMana Cost

3Prints

Set

Secrets of Strixhaven Commander · View all prints →

Character Background

Animist’s Awakening is a clean value engine for green decks that want to turn mana into inevitability, especially ramp, midrange, and landfall shells. At base, it digs X cards deep for lands and converts a big mana investment into immediate battlefield presence, thinning your deck and improving future draws; with spell mastery online, it becomes far more explosive by untapping those lands, effectively refunding a portion of the spell and letting you chain into another threat, ramp piece, or interaction. In practice, it rewards careful graveyard management and decks packed with cheap instants and sorceries, since two spells in the graveyard can turn a simple mana sink into a tempo swing. It pairs well with fetch lands, top-of-library manipulation, and landfall payoffs like extra token makers or permanent growth effects. The Strixhaven flavor fits a studied druidic ritual: patient, methodical, and suddenly overwhelming once the right conditions are met.

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