Animist's Awakening
Animist's Awakening: Sorcery, Secrets of Strixhaven Commander. Reveal the top X cards of your library. Printings, prices, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {X}{G}
- Mana value
- 1
- Type
- Sorcery
- Colour identity
- Green (G)
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)
- Released
- 2026-04-24
- Collector number
- 261
- Artist
- Chris Rahn
- Commander rank
- 2,544 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
- Keywords
- Spell mastery
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About Animist's Awakening
Animist's Awakening is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare green sorcery from Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC), a Commander product released in April 2026. It is collector number 261 in that set, with art by Chris Rahn. It costs {X}{G} (X and one green mana) to cast, for a mana value of 1. Its colour identity is green. It is legal in Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker and Penny Dreadful. It has been printed in 3 sets, from Magic Origins (2015) to Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (2026). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.38 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-02).
Card 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.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.38 (as of 2026-11-02).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Animist's Awakening by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Pioneer | Legal |
|---|---|
| Modern | Legal |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Penny Dreadful | Legal |
Other printings of Animist's Awakening
Animist's Awakening has been printed in 3 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Commander 2020 (C20) #166 | Rare | 2020 |
| Magic Origins (ORI) #169 | Rare | 2015 |
Official rulings
Four official rulings apply to Animist's Awakening, newest first.
- Check to see if there are two or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard as the spell resolves to determine whether the spell mastery ability applies. The spell itself won't count because it's still on the stack as you make this check.
- If the spell mastery ability applies, you untap only the lands put onto the battlefield with Animist's Awakening.
- No player will know the order of the cards put on the bottom of your library. Practically speaking, the cards should be shuffled (although this is not the game action of "shuffling").
- If you have X or less cards in your library, you'll reveal all the cards from your library, put all land cards from among them onto the battlefield tapped, and then put the rest of the cards back in your library in a random order. (This is effectively the same as shuffling your library, although it's still not technically a shuffle.)
Similar cards
Other sorcery cards with a green colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.
In these precons
Animist's Awakening is in the decklist of these preconstructed Commander decks.