Rare · Commander Masters and 2 other printings

Wake the Dead

Instant

Cast this spell only during combat on an opponent's turn.

Return X target creature cards from your graveyard to the battlefield. Sacrifice those creatures at the beginning of the next end step.

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How it plays

What it wants, and what it gives

Read from the rules text. A card that enables a keyword makes or is the thing; a card that rewards it gets better when you have it. Two cards interact when one enables what the other rewards.

It rewards

rewardsBig mana & X spellsKeyword page →Produces a lot of mana, or has somewhere to sink it.426 cards enable Big mana & X spells rewardsGraveyardKeyword page →Fills your own graveyard, or uses it as a resource (recursion, reanimation, flashback).2,113 cards enable Graveyard

It enables

enablesSpellslingerKeyword page →Instants and sorceries, and cards that trigger when you cast them.1,018 cards reward Spellslinger

Works well with

Cards that click with it

rewardsBig mana & X spellsmeetsenablesBig mana & X spells426 cards enable it

Price

Lowest printing, from Scryfall.

US market$1.25

EU market$1.28

Foil, lowest$1.32

Price history: Commander Masters #197

Non-foil
Foil

Show as a table

Date	Non-foil	Foil
12 Nov 2026	$1.25	$1.32
11 Nov 2026	$1.25	$1.32

Formats

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