The Dawning Archaic

The Dawning Archaic

Legendary Creature — Avatar

Mana cost: {10}

How we read this card

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard.

static — costs less

Reach
Whenever The Dawning Archaic attacks, you may cast target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.

triggered — brings a card back

triggered —

What a deck led by this card wants

Causes: cast an instant, cast a sorcery, an instant leaves a graveyard, a sorcery leaves a graveyard, exile a spell, a spell leaves the battlefield.

Cares about: an instant in a graveyard, a sorcery in a graveyard.

Works well with

an instant in a graveyard — 2 cards in the game can cause this (The Dawning Archaic is one).

  1. Makeshift Mannequin — When Makeshift Mannequin is in the graveyard, The Dawning Archaic gets bigger
  2. Supper for Spiders — When Supper for Spiders is in the graveyard, The Dawning Archaic gets bigger

hits creature — 2,298 cards in the game can cause this (The Dawning Archaic is one).

  1. Jalira, Master Polymorphist — Jalira, Master Polymorphist can put The Dawning Archaic onto the battlefield from your library
  2. Polymorph — Polymorph can put The Dawning Archaic onto the battlefield from your library
  3. Birthing Ritual — Birthing Ritual can put The Dawning Archaic onto the battlefield from your library
  4. Industrial Advancement — Industrial Advancement can put The Dawning Archaic onto the battlefield from your library
  5. Killer Instinct — Killer Instinct can put The Dawning Archaic onto the battlefield from your library
  6. Arthur, Marigold Knight — Arthur, Marigold Knight can put The Dawning Archaic onto the battlefield from your library
  7. Proteus Staff — Proteus Staff can put The Dawning Archaic onto the battlefield from your library
  8. Synthetic Destiny — Synthetic Destiny can put The Dawning Archaic onto the battlefield from your library
  9. Divergent Transformations — Divergent Transformations can put The Dawning Archaic onto the battlefield from your library
  10. Transmogrify — Transmogrify can put The Dawning Archaic onto the battlefield from your library

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

an instant leaves a graveyard — 202 cards in the game can cause this (The Dawning Archaic is one).

  1. Murktide Regent — When an instant leaves a graveyard thanks to The Dawning Archaic, Murktide Regent puts a +1/+1 counter on itself

anything is exiled — 2,497 cards in the game can cause this (The Dawning Archaic is one).

  1. The War Doctor — When The Dawning Archaic is exiled, The War Doctor puts a time counter on itself

1 other card cares about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

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

When an instant or sorcery leaves a graveyard thanks to The Dawning Archaic:

  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 (The Dawning Archaic is one).

  1. Electro, Assaulting Battery — When an instant is cast thanks to The Dawning Archaic, Electro, Assaulting Battery adds 1 mana
  2. Spellweaver Volute — When a sorcery is cast thanks to The Dawning Archaic, Spellweaver Volute copies a spell
  3. Riku of Two Reflections — When an instant is cast thanks to The Dawning Archaic, Riku of Two Reflections copies a spell
  4. Sword of Wealth and Power — When an instant is cast thanks to The Dawning Archaic, Sword of Wealth and Power copies a spell
  5. Lilah, Undefeated Slickshot — When an instant is cast thanks to The Dawning Archaic, Lilah, Undefeated Slickshot gets +1/+1
  6. Extus, Oriq Overlord // Awaken the Blood Avatar — When an instant is cast thanks to The Dawning Archaic, Extus, Oriq Overlord // Awaken the Blood Avatar brings a card back
  7. Metallurgic Summonings — When an instant is cast thanks to The Dawning Archaic, Metallurgic Summonings makes a token
  8. Storm-Kiln Artist — When an instant is cast thanks to The Dawning Archaic, Storm-Kiln Artist makes a token
  9. Niblis of Frost — When an instant is cast thanks to The Dawning Archaic, Niblis of Frost taps a creature an opponent controls
  10. Mica, Reader of Ruins — When an instant is cast thanks to The Dawning Archaic, Mica, Reader of Ruins sacrifices an artifact

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

anything attacks — 17,934 cards in the game can cause this (The Dawning Archaic is one).

  1. Shaun, Father of Synths — When The Dawning Archaic attacks, Shaun, Father of Synths makes a token

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

a creature is cast — 18,010 cards in the game can cause this (The Dawning Archaic is one).

  1. God-Eternal Oketra — When The Dawning Archaic is cast, God-Eternal Oketra makes a token

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

a creature enters the battlefield — 19,800 cards in the game can cause this (The Dawning Archaic is one).

  1. Pollywog Prodigy — When The Dawning Archaic enters, Pollywog Prodigy puts a counter on itself

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