Isareth the Awakener
Legendary Creature — Human Wizard
Deathtouch
Whenever Isareth attacks, you may pay 
. When you do, return target creature card with mana value X from your graveyard to the battlefield with a corpse counter on it. If that creature would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else.
3 / 3
- Set
- Core Set 2019 (M19 #104)
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana value
- 3
- Released
- 2018-07-13
- Artist
- Jason Rainville
- EDHREC rank
- #14,933
- Colour identity
- Finishes
- Nonfoil, Foil
- Served from
- Local database
Commander bracket
Derived from card traits, not a ruling — bracket rules turn on how a deck intends to use a card. Bracket rules
EDHREC
Combos
Not part of any combo on Commander Spellbook.
Commander recommendations
Top synergy 50
Played far more in this commander's decks than elsewhere.
- Buried Alive
- Liliana, Death's Majesty
- Archfiend's Vessel
- Tormod, the Desecrator
- Stitcher's Supplier
- Vile Entomber
- Songs of the Damned
- Desecrated Tomb
- Massacre Wurm
- Plaguecrafter
- Syr Konrad, the Grim
- Gorging Vulture
- Dusk Mangler
- Ravenous Chupacabra
- Fain, the Broker
- Grave Researcher
- Dread Return
- Sepulchral Primordial
- Fleshbag Marauder
- Burnished Hart
- Shriekmaw
- Undead Butler
- Millikin
- Conjurer's Closet
- Victimize
- Corpse Connoisseur
- Entomb
- Vile Mutilator
- Disciple of Bolas
- Demon of Catastrophes
- Gravelighter
- Dreadhound
- Open the Graves
- Harvester of Souls
- Gravedigger
- Mire Triton
- Goremand
- Cemetery Tampering
- Wailing Ghoul
- Solemn Simulacrum
- Deathcap Marionette
- The Master of Lake-town
- Accursed Marauder
- Scion of Halaster
- Arbiter of Woe
- Murder
- Grim Haruspex
- Grave Titan
- Demon's Disciple
- Crypt of Agadeem
Most included 50
Highest share of decks running them, distinctive or not.
- Swamp
- Sol Ring
- Gray Merchant of Asphodel
- Buried Alive
- Dark Ritual
- Arcane Signet
- Victimize
- Plaguecrafter
- Cabal Coffers
- Syr Konrad, the Grim
- Massacre Wurm
- Bojuka Bog
- Feed the Swarm
- Reanimate
- Liliana, Death's Majesty
- Accursed Marauder
- Crypt Ghast
- Fleshbag Marauder
- Stitcher's Supplier
- Night's Whisper
- Morbid Opportunist
- Solemn Simulacrum
- Vile Entomber
- Village Rites
- Charcoal Diamond
- Tormod, the Desecrator
- Songs of the Damned
- Mind Stone
- Dread Return
- Archfiend's Vessel
- Ayara, First of Locthwain
- Sign in Blood
- Jet Medallion
- Cabal Stronghold
- Witch's Cottage
- Rogue's Passage
- Entomb
- Grave Researcher
- Desecrated Tomb
- Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
- Defile
- Blood Artist
- Ravenous Chupacabra
- Burnished Hart
- Myriad Landscape
- Crypt of Agadeem
- Animate Dead
- Toxic Deluge
- Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
- Deadly Dispute
Format legality
Rulings
- 2018-07-13
Because all attacking creatures are chosen at once, a creature returned this way can't attack during the same combat as it returns, even if it has haste.
- 2018-07-13
Because to die means to be put into a graveyard from the battlefield, a creature that is exiled instead doesn't "die." Abilities that would trigger when it dies won't trigger.
- 2018-07-13
If Isareth leaves the battlefield, the replacement effect continues to apply. If one of the creatures it returned would leave the battlefield, it'll be exiled instead.
- 2018-07-13
If a card in your graveyard has
in its mana cost, X is considered to be 0. - 2018-07-13
If you somehow remove a corpse counter from a creature Isareth has returned to the battlefield, the replacement effect that will exile it continues to apply. The counter is only to help remind you which creatures will be exiled if they would leave the battlefield.
- 2018-07-13
Isareth's triggered ability goes on the stack without a target. While that ability is resolving, you may pay
. When you do, a second ability triggers and you pick a target creature card to return. This is different from abilities that say "If you do . . ." in that players may cast spells and activate abilities after mana is paid and the target creature card is chosen, but before that card is returned.