Wakedancer
Foundations Jumpstart 512 • common
- Set
- Foundations Jumpstart
- Collector number
- 512
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- 2 generic mana black mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Black
- Artist
- Mila Pesic
- Market price
- $0.16
What it does
Morbid — When this creature enters, if a creature died this turn, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
Havengul wakes are widely regarded as great entertainment. If you're lucky, the guest of honor climbs out of the casket and joins in the festivities.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperLegal
- BrawlLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Wakedancer is a card featured in the Foundations Jumpstart set, which serves as an introductory product for Magic: The Gathering. The card was designed to reinforce the 'Grave' or graveyard-synergy archetype, a recurring theme in black-aligned magic that rewards players for interacting with their own discarded creatures. By requiring a creature to have died earlier in the turn to trigger its morbid ability, it encourages strategic timing and resource management during gameplay.
The art and design for this iteration of Wakedancer reflect the gothic and ethereal aesthetic typical of the set's graveyard-themed cards. Illustrators tasked with the Foundations set aimed for a balance between clarity for newer players and the distinct, dark fantasy flavor that has defined the game for decades. Upon release, the card was received as a functional, illustrative example of how creature death can be weaponized in deck construction, fitting seamlessly into the Jumpstart format's focus on accessible, ready-to-play synergy.
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