Card text
This spell costs {1} less to cast for each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard.
Whenever The Dawning Archaic attacks, you may cast target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.
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Mana cost
{10}
Power / toughness
7/7
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Card text
This spell costs {1} less to cast for each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard.
Whenever The Dawning Archaic attacks, you may cast target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.
Format legality
- StandardLegal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- AlchemyLegal
About The Dawning Archaic
This page covers the borderless printing of The Dawning Archaic (289), a Legendary Creature — Avatar from Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS). It is printed at Mythic Rare rarity. The one keyword in its text is Reach. It is legal in Standard, Pioneer, Modern and Legacy and 7 more formats.
We track no other printing of 289 in this set, so there is no base card here to compare its price with.
Secrets of Strixhaven is a main expansion, released April 2026. The Dawning Archaic has 1 other card in the database, listed further down the page.
This spell costs {1} less to cast for each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard. Reach Whenever The Dawning Archaic attacks, you may cast target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.
Card details
- Card number
- 289
- Set
- Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS)
- Set type
- Expansion
- Released
- 24 April 2026
- Rarity
- Mythic Rare (M)
- Printing
- Borderless
- Type line
- Legendary Creature — Avatar
- Colour
- Colourless
- Colour identity
- Colourless
- Mana cost
- {10}
- Power / toughness
- 7/7
- Finish
- Non-foil
TCGplayer listing: The Dawning Archaic
Other printings of The Dawning Archaic in Secrets of Strixhaven
The same card in other art and frames from this set — priced in the United States.
The Dawning Archaic in other sets
Every other printing with this name, one per set.
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