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
- Commander Masters (CMM #168)
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Mana value
- 3
- Released
- 2023-08-04
- Artist
- Jason Rainville
- EDHREC rank
- #14,697
- 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.
- Liliana, Death's Majesty
- Buried Alive
- Archfiend's Vessel
- Tormod, the Desecrator
- Songs of the Damned
- Stitcher's Supplier
- Vile Entomber
- Desecrated Tomb
- Massacre Wurm
- Plaguecrafter
- Syr Konrad, the Grim
- Ravenous Chupacabra
- Fleshbag Marauder
- Fain, the Broker
- Dusk Mangler
- Sepulchral Primordial
- Dread Return
- Victimize
- Gorging Vulture
- Burnished Hart
- Conjurer's Closet
- Shriekmaw
- Undead Butler
- Open the Graves
- Millikin
- Corpse Connoisseur
- Gravelighter
- Disciple of Bolas
- Cemetery Tampering
- Dreadhound
- Vile Mutilator
- Entomb
- Undead Hand Ninja
- Accursed Marauder
- Deathcap Marionette
- Grave Titan
- Charcoal Diamond
- Mire Triton
- Demon's Disciple
- Stinkweed Imp
- Crypt of Agadeem
- Grave Researcher
- Gravedigger
- Demon of Catastrophes
- Arbiter of Woe
- Scion of Halaster
- Grim Haruspex
- Solemn Simulacrum
- Troop of Ponies
- Murder
Most included 50
Highest share of decks running them, distinctive or not.
- Swamp
- Sol Ring
- Gray Merchant of Asphodel
- Dark Ritual
- Buried Alive
- Arcane Signet
- Victimize
- Plaguecrafter
- Cabal Coffers
- Bojuka Bog
- Syr Konrad, the Grim
- Feed the Swarm
- Reanimate
- Massacre Wurm
- Liliana, Death's Majesty
- Fleshbag Marauder
- Accursed Marauder
- Crypt Ghast
- Charcoal Diamond
- Night's Whisper
- Stitcher's Supplier
- Village Rites
- Songs of the Damned
- Morbid Opportunist
- Solemn Simulacrum
- Vile Entomber
- Mind Stone
- Tormod, the Desecrator
- Ayara, First of Locthwain
- Dread Return
- Jet Medallion
- Witch's Cottage
- Archfiend's Vessel
- Cabal Stronghold
- Sign in Blood
- Entomb
- Desecrated Tomb
- Rogue's Passage
- Defile
- Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
- Blood Artist
- Toxic Deluge
- Swiftfoot Boots
- Crypt of Agadeem
- Ravenous Chupacabra
- Burnished Hart
- Deadly Dispute
- Withering Torment
- Animate Dead
- Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
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.