Thunderkin Awakener
Core Set 2020 162 • rare
- Set
- Core Set 2020
- Collector number
- 162
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana cost
- 1 generic mana red mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Red
- Artist
- Yongjae Choi
- Market price
- $0.32
What it does
Haste
Whenever this creature attacks, choose target Elemental creature card in your graveyard with toughness less than this creature's toughness. Return that card to the battlefield tapped and attacking. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Thunderkin Awakener was released in the Core Set 2020 expansion for Magic: The Gathering, hitting shelves in July 2019. Designed as a tribal payoff card for the Elemental creature type, it was intended to facilitate aggressive deck strategies by allowing players to repeatedly recur low-power creatures from their graveyard. This mechanic reflects the set's broader mechanical focus on color-specific archetypes and synergistic tribal themes.
The card features artwork by illustrator Johannes Voss, who utilized vibrant, swirling energy motifs to capture the elemental nature of the creature. Within the competitive landscape, it was received as a niche but effective tool in specialized decks, particularly those leveraging the synergy between the Elemental tribe and the graveyard-centric mechanics prevalent in the Standard format of that era.
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