Jolted Awake: Graveyard Reanimation with a Payoff
Jolted Awake is built for graveyard focused play that thrives on efficiency and timing. This Modern Horizons 3 sorcery lets you target an artifact or creature card in your graveyard and attempt to bring it back by matching its mana value. The option to pay that value adds a strategic layer, turning a simple reanimation into a calculated tempo play. The card also features cycling, giving you another route if you draw it in a slower hand.
In practice the spell rewards planning and graveyard synergy. Reanimating a key artifact or a powerful creature can swing the board state, especially when you sequence it with other graveyard interactions. The cycling cost provides a built in surrogate for when the opportunity isn’t immediately available, helping you stay proactive rather than reactive as the game unfolds.
Card Details:
- Mana Cost – {2}{R}
- Card Type – Sorcery
- Subtypes –
- Card Text (Printed) – Choose up to one target artifact or creature card in your graveyard. You get {R}{R}. Then you may pay an amount of mana equal to that card's mana value. If you do, return it from your graveyard to the battlefield. Cycling 2
- Power / Toughness –
- Loyalty –
