Wake the Dragon
Wake the Dragon: Sorcery, Tales of Middle-earth Commander. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {4}{B}{R}
- Mana value
- 6
- Type
- Sorcery
- Colour identity
- Black and red (BR)
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC)
- Released
- 2023-06-23
- Collector number
- 74
- Artist
- Henry Peters
- Keywords
- Flashback
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About Wake the Dragon
Wake the Dragon is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare black and red sorcery from Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC), a Commander product released in June 2023. It is collector number 74 in that set, with art by Henry Peters. It costs {4}{B}{R} (four generic, one black and one red mana) to cast, for a mana value of 6. Its colour identity is black and red. It is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander and Oathbreaker. Tales of Middle-earth Commander is its only printing so far. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.34 (normal finish, as of 2026-10-23).
Card text
Create a 6/6 black and red Dragon creature token with flying, menace, and "Whenever this token deals combat damage to a player, gain control of target artifact that player controls."
Flashback {6}{B}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.34 (as of 2026-10-23).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Wake the Dragon by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Legacy | Legal |
|---|---|
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
Other printings of Wake the Dragon
The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC) #484 | Rare | 2023 |
| Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC) #154 | Rare | 2023 |
Official rulings
Six official rulings apply to Wake the Dragon, newest first.
- "Flashback [cost]" means "You may cast this card from your graveyard by paying [cost] rather than paying its mana cost" and "If the flashback cost was paid, exile this card instead of putting it anywhere else any time it would leave the stack."
- You must still follow any timing restrictions and permissions, including those based on the card's type. For instance, you can cast a sorcery using flashback only when you could normally cast a sorcery.
- You can cast a spell using flashback even if it was somehow put into your graveyard without having been cast.
- To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost (such as a flashback cost) you're paying, add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. The mana value of the spell is determined only by its mana cost, no matter what the total cost to cast the spell was.
- If a card with flashback is put into your graveyard during your turn, you can cast it if it's legal to do so before any other player can take any actions.
- A spell cast using flashback will always be exiled afterward, whether it resolves, is countered, or leaves the stack in some other way.
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