Startled Awake // Persistent Nightmare

Sorcery // Creature — Nightmare

Target opponent mills thirteen cards. : Put this card from your graveyard onto the battlefield transformed. Activate only as a sorcery. // Skulk (This creature can't be blocked by creatures with greater power.) When this creature deals combat damage to a player, return it to its owner's hand.

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Published revision
482a4a8d-910a-4262-8142-5f79ac2d4159
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34,605
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34,605
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1,684
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partial Extraction abilities-3

Incomplete card classification: unmodeled effect: Put this card from your graveyard onto the battlefield transformed; unmodeled effect: Skulk; unmodeled effect restriction: return it to its owner's hand.

Ability 1

spellcomplete

Target opponent mills thirteen cards.

Active zone
stack
Trigger
Unavailable
Cost
No recorded activation cost.
Requirements
No additional explicit requirement.
Source span
0–37

Functional categories

Effects

mill · immediate

No additional explicit requirement.

  • produces graveyard_card · opponent card · library → graveyard
    No additional explicit requirement.
Source evidence
Source
oracle
Revision
4f2a71bfc2941001fb432c756bdfbbfc6c84eacf84d76fbba337735bcc7b7b39
Rule
abilities-3
Confidence
Not calibrated

Target opponent mills thirteen cards.

Ability 2

activatedpartial

{3}{U}{U}: Put this card from your graveyard onto the battlefield transformed. Activate only as a sorcery.

Active zone
stack
Trigger
Unavailable
Cost
Mana {3}{U}{U}
Requirements
All of: timing: sorcery; Unsupported condition: unmodeled effect: Put this card from your graveyard onto the battlefield transformed
Source span
38–144

Functional categories

Effects

payment · immediate

No additional explicit requirement.

  • requires mana · self U · amount 2
    action kind: activated_ability
  • requires mana · self generic · amount 3
    action kind: activated_ability

Incomplete: unmodeled effect: Put this card from your graveyard onto the battlefield transformed

Source evidence
Source
oracle
Revision
4f2a71bfc2941001fb432c756bdfbbfc6c84eacf84d76fbba337735bcc7b7b39
Rule
abilities-3
Confidence
Not calibrated

{3}{U}{U}: Put this card from your graveyard onto the battlefield transformed. Activate only as a sorcery.

Ability 3

castunsupported

Cast Startled Awake

Active zone
hand
Trigger
Unavailable
Cost
Mana {2}{U}{U}
Requirements
All of: timing: sorcery; Unsupported condition: multi-face casting choice not modeled
Source span
0–0

No functional category evidence is published for this ability.

Effects

cast · immediate

No additional explicit requirement.

  • requires mana · self U · amount 2
    action kind: noncreature_spell
  • requires mana · self generic · amount 2
    action kind: noncreature_spell
  • produces noncreature_cast · self spell · amount 1 · hand → stack
    No additional explicit requirement.

Incomplete: multi-face casting choice not modeled

Source evidence
Source
scryfall
Revision
4f2a71bfc2941001fb432c756bdfbbfc6c84eacf84d76fbba337735bcc7b7b39
Rule
card-type-cast-event
Confidence
Not calibrated

Sorcery

Ability 4

staticunsupported

Skulk (This creature can't be blocked by creatures with greater power.)

Active zone
battlefield
Trigger
Unavailable
Cost
No recorded activation cost.
Requirements
All of: Unsupported condition: unmodeled effect: Skulk
Source span
0–71

Functional categories

Effects

No effect records were extracted.

Incomplete: unmodeled effect: Skulk

Source evidence
Source
oracle
Revision
4f2a71bfc2941001fb432c756bdfbbfc6c84eacf84d76fbba337735bcc7b7b39
Rule
abilities-3
Confidence
Not calibrated

Skulk (This creature can't be blocked by creatures with greater power.)

Ability 5

triggeredpartial

When this creature deals combat damage to a player, return it to its owner's hand.

Active zone
battlefield
Trigger
combat damage
Cost
No recorded activation cost.
Requirements
All of: Unsupported condition: unmodeled effect restriction: return it to its owner's hand.
Source span
72–154

Functional categories

Effects

trigger · immediate

No additional explicit requirement.

  • payoff combat_damage · any creature
    No additional explicit requirement.

bounce · immediate

Unsupported condition: return it to its owner's hand.

  • produces bounce · any card · amount 1 · battlefield → hand
    No additional explicit requirement.

Incomplete: unmodeled effect restriction: return it to its owner's hand.

Source evidence
Source
oracle
Revision
4f2a71bfc2941001fb432c756bdfbbfc6c84eacf84d76fbba337735bcc7b7b39
Rule
abilities-3
Confidence
Not calibrated

When this creature deals combat damage to a player, return it to its owner's hand.

Ability 6

castunsupported

Cast Persistent Nightmare

Active zone
hand
Trigger
Unavailable
Cost
No recorded activation cost.
Requirements
All of: timing: sorcery; Unsupported condition: no ordinary mana cost; multi-face casting choice not modeled
Source span
0–0

No functional category evidence is published for this ability.

Effects

cast · immediate

No additional explicit requirement.

  • produces creature_cast · self creature · amount 1 · hand → stack
    No additional explicit requirement.

Incomplete: no ordinary mana cost; multi-face casting choice not modeled

Source evidence
Source
scryfall
Revision
4f2a71bfc2941001fb432c756bdfbbfc6c84eacf84d76fbba337735bcc7b7b39
Rule
card-type-cast-event
Confidence
Not calibrated

Creature — Nightmare

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