Helm of Awakening card art

Helm of Awakening

Artifact MV 2

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What it does

Spells cost 1 less to cast.

Combos with Helm of Awakening

Lines this card is part of — what it needs alongside it, and what the two of them do. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.

  • Chthonian Nightmare Patron of the Arts Infinite
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite storm count
    • Infinite energy counters
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Acererak the Archlich Gwenna, Eyes of Gaea Infinite
    • Infinite card draw
    • Infinite draw triggers
    • Near-infinite +1/+1 counters
    • Near-infinite colored mana
    • Near-infinite creature tokens
    • Near-infinite damage
    • Near-infinite creature ETB
    • Near-infinite lifegain
    • Near-infinite lifegain triggers
    • Near-infinite lifeloss
    • Near-infinite creature LTB
    • Near-infinite storm count
    • Near-infinite Treasure tokens
    • Near-infinite ventures into the dungeon
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Primordial Mist Ugin, the Ineffable Infinite
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite storm count
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Aethersnipe Gwenna, Eyes of Gaea Infinite
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite storm count
    • Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Oathsworn Vampire Phyrexian Altar Infinite
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite storm count
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Blazing Firesinger // Seething Song Emiel the Blessed Infinite
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite magecraft triggers
    • Infinite storm count
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Evolution Witness Myr Scrapling Infinite
    • Infinite artifact ETB
    • Infinite artifact LTB
    • Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite storm count
    • Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Amareth, the Lustrous Sensei's Divining Top Infinite
    • Near-infinite artifact ETB
    • Near-infinite artifact LTB
    • Infinite card draw
    • Near-infinite storm count
    • Infinite draw triggers
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →

Showing the 8 shortest and most explosive. This card appears in more than these — follow any of them through to Commander Spellbook to browse the rest.

Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.

Rulings

6 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2004-10-04

    If this card is sacrificed to pay part of a spell's cost, the cost reduction still applies.

  • 2004-10-04

    The generic X cost is still considered generic even if there is a requirement that a specific color be used for it. For example, “only black mana can be spent this way”. This distinction is important for effects which reduce the generic portion of a spell's cost.

  • 2004-10-04

    The effect is cumulative.

  • 2004-10-04

    This can lower the cost to zero, but not below zero.

  • 2004-10-04

    The lower cost is not optional like with some other cost reducers.

  • 2004-10-04

    Can never affect the colored part of the cost.

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Helm of Awakening, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 1
Games played 1
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games — not enough to publish a rate yet.
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
The Fantastic Four 1 1 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Four-Color (no Black) 1 deck

Every version of Helm of Awakening

5 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly — a printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall genuinely publishes none for some of them.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Helm of Awakening — a name search across every version, for the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.

Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only — no individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.