Price$15.61 – $18.08
Buy on TCGplayerValakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge
Instant // Land
LegalCard DrawRank #516
Put any number of cards from your hand on the bottom of your library, then draw that many cards plus one.
This land enters tapped.
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Why is this card good?
Valakut Awakening is one of the best refuel/dig spells in mono-red and red-heavy decks, precisely because of the modal land back. Red is the worst color at card advantage, so a flexible card that's never a dead draw is huge: keep it as a land when flooded, or cast it to dump excess lands and reload your grip.
The draw mode is a wheel-for-one: pitch your dead cards (lands you don't need, situational spells) and draw fresh. It refills empty hands after an aggressive dump and fixes bad draws mid-game. The +1 means it's never card-disadvantage.
Who wants it: mono-red and red-leaning decks light on draw — Krenko, dragons, burn, spellslinger like Heliod-style Feldon, or any aggressive list that empties its hand fast (it gives you gas to keep going).
When to skip it: in multicolor decks with access to blue/green/black card draw, or if your deck rarely runs out of cards. The MDFC tax (enters tapped) also makes it a mediocre pure land in greedy mana bases.
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Printings (4)
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