Mythic · Shadows over Innistrad and 1 other printing

Startled Awake // Persistent Nightmare

Sorcery // Creature — Nightmare

Target opponent mills thirteen cards.

{3} {U} {U} : Put this card from your graveyard onto the battlefield transformed. Activate only as a sorcery.

Skulk (This creature can't be blocked by creatures with greater power.)

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

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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

rewardsGraveyardKeyword page →Fills your own graveyard, or uses it as a resource (recursion, reanimation, flashback).2,113 cards enable Graveyard

It enables

enablesMillKeyword page →Mills opponents, or cares about cards in their graveyards.137 cards reward Mill

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Date	Non-foil	Foil
12 Nov 2026	$0.98	$2.83
11 Nov 2026	$0.98	$2.83

Startled Awake // Persistent Nightmare

What it wants, and what it gives

Startled Awake // Persistent Nightmare

What it wants, and what it gives

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