Startled Awake // Persistent Nightmare

Startled Awake // Persistent Nightmare

Sorcery // Creature — Nightmare

Mana cost: {2}{U}{U}

How we read this card

Target opponent mills thirteen cards.

on-cast — mills a card

Put this card from your graveyard onto the battlefield transformed. Activate only as a sorcery.

activated {3}{U}{U} — brings a card back

Skulk
When this creature deals combat damage to a player, return it to its owner's hand.

triggered — bounce

Causes: mill a card, put anything onto the battlefield, anything leaves a graveyard, a creature leaves the battlefield.

Cares about: nothing.

Works well with

anything leaves the battlefield — 1 card in the game can cause this (Startled Awake is one).

  1. Electro, Assaulting Battery — When Electro, Assaulting Battery leaves the battlefield thanks to Startled Awake // Persistent Nightmare, it triggers

a card is milled — 772 cards in the game can cause this (Startled Awake is one).

  1. Lo and Li, Royal Advisors — When a permanent makes a player mill a card thanks to Startled Awake // Persistent Nightmare, Lo and Li, Royal Advisors puts a counter on an Advisor

a creature leaves a graveyard — 1,302 cards in the game can cause this (Startled Awake is one).

When Startled Awake // Persistent Nightmare leaves a graveyard:

  1. Grim Reaper's Scythe — makes a token
  2. Syr Konrad, the Grim — deals 1 damage
  3. Cyan, Vengeful Samurai — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  4. Along the Crooked Way — puts a counter on a Goblin or Army
  5. Skeleton Crew — makes a token
  6. Desecrated Tomb — makes a token
  7. Chalk Outline — makes a token
  8. Insidious Roots — makes a token
  9. Undead Hand Ninja — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  10. Erebos's Titan — triggers

3 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

anything leaves a graveyard — 2,503 cards in the game can cause this (Startled Awake is one).

When Startled Awake // Persistent Nightmare leaves a graveyard:

  1. Blastoneuron — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  2. Defiled Crypt // Cadaver Lab — makes a token
  3. Teval, the Balanced Scale — makes a token
  4. Hologram Stalker — makes a token
  5. Tormod, the Desecrator — makes a token
  6. Quintorius, Field Historian — makes a token
  7. Garrison Excavator — makes a token
  8. Amzu, Swarm's Hunger — makes a token
  9. Kirol, History Buff // Pack a Punch — becomes prepared
  10. Teval's Judgment — triggers

13 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a sorcery is cast — 3,720 cards in the game can cause this (Startled Awake is one).

When Startled Awake // Persistent Nightmare is cast:

  1. Spellweaver Volute — copies a spell
  2. Lilah, Undefeated Slickshot — gets +1/+1
  3. Niblis of Frost — gets +1/+1
  4. Primeval Bounty — puts 3 counters on a creature
  5. Tetsuko Umezawa, Pursuer — gets +1/+1
  6. Thor, God of Thunder — deals that spell's mana value damage
  7. Krile Baldesion — brings a card back
  8. Summon: Good King Mog XII — makes a token
  9. Kykar, Wind's Fury — makes a token
  10. Blood Funnel — sacrifices a creature

424 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a nontoken creature leaves the battlefield — 4,133 cards in the game can cause this (Startled Awake is one).

When Startled Awake // Persistent Nightmare leaves the battlefield:

  1. Tokka & Rahzar, Unsupervised — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  2. Splinter, the Mentor — makes a token
  3. Rat King, Pale Piper — makes a token
  4. Dual Nature — exiles a creature

a creature leaves the battlefield — 4,238 cards in the game can cause this (Startled Awake is one).

  1. Lunarch Veteran // Luminous Phantom — When Startled Awake // Persistent Nightmare leaves the battlefield, Lunarch Veteran // Luminous Phantom gains you 1 life
  2. Extractor Demon — When Startled Awake // Persistent Nightmare leaves the battlefield, Extractor Demon mills a card
  3. Aang, Airbending Master — When Startled Awake // Persistent Nightmare leaves the battlefield, Aang, Airbending Master puts a counter on a permanent
  4. Dour Port-Mage — When Startled Awake // Persistent Nightmare leaves the battlefield, Dour Port-Mage draws you 1 card
  5. Vela the Night-Clad — When Startled Awake // Persistent Nightmare leaves the battlefield, Vela the Night-Clad makes each opponent lose 1 life
  6. Taeko, the Patient Avalanche — When Startled Awake // Persistent Nightmare leaves the battlefield, Taeko, the Patient Avalanche scries
  7. Phantasmal Mount — When Phantasmal Mount leaves the battlefield thanks to Startled Awake // Persistent Nightmare, it triggers
  8. Funeral March — When Startled Awake // Persistent Nightmare leaves the battlefield, Funeral March makes a player sacrifice a creature
  9. Sally Sparrow — When Startled Awake // Persistent Nightmare leaves the battlefield, Sally Sparrow triggers
  10. Aang, at the Crossroads // Aang, Destined Savior — When Startled Awake // Persistent Nightmare leaves the battlefield, Aang, at the Crossroads // Aang, Destined Savior triggers

19 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a card in a graveyard — 7,589 cards in the game can cause this (Startled Awake is one).

  1. Fire Nation Salvagers — Startled Awake // Persistent Nightmare puts cards into the graveyard that Fire Nation Salvagers can bring back
  2. Bloodbond March — Startled Awake // Persistent Nightmare puts cards into the graveyard that Bloodbond March can bring back
  3. Heart-Shaped Herb — Startled Awake // Persistent Nightmare puts cards into the graveyard that Heart-Shaped Herb can bring back
  4. Enlightened Confidant — Startled Awake // Persistent Nightmare puts cards into the graveyard that Enlightened Confidant can bring back
  5. Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern — Startled Awake // Persistent Nightmare puts cards into the graveyard that Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern can bring back
  6. Grazing Kelpie — Startled Awake // Persistent Nightmare puts cards into the graveyard that Grazing Kelpie can bring back
  7. Dauthi Voidwalker — Cards Startled Awake // Persistent Nightmare would put into an opponent's graveyard are exiled by Dauthi Voidwalker instead, and it can play from among them
  8. Spurnmage Advocate — Startled Awake // Persistent Nightmare puts cards into the graveyard that Spurnmage Advocate can bring back
  9. Endurance — Startled Awake // Persistent Nightmare puts cards into the graveyard that Endurance can bring back
  10. Merfolk Windrobber — Startled Awake // Persistent Nightmare fills an opponent's graveyard toward the 8 or more cards Merfolk Windrobber needs

434 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

anything goes to a graveyard — 7,589 cards in the game can cause this (Startled Awake is one).

When a card hits the graveyard thanks to Startled Awake // Persistent Nightmare:

  1. The Haunt of Hightower — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  2. Duskmantle Guildmage — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  3. Vulturous Zombie — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  4. Bloodchief Ascension — makes each opponent lose 2 life

7 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.