Startled Awake // Persistent Nightmare Magic: The Gathering card
3 printings

Startled Awake // Persistent Nightmare

Sorcery // Creature — Nightmare

Blue Illus. Sean Sevestre

Startled Awake

Sorcery

Target opponent mills thirteen cards.

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

Persistent Nightmare

Creature — Nightmare

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.

Market estimate · ~24h

$0.98 – $2.83

Across paper printings · TCGplayer & Cardmarket. Digital printings have no paper market.

Card data via Scryfall. Paper market figures use TCGplayer market price and Cardmarket values that Scryfall syncs from affiliates. View on Scryfall · How Scryfall prices work . Prices refresh about every 24 hours — useful estimates, not a live storefront and not an in-stock offer. Tappr is not the seller. Page checked 2026-11-02 07:32 UTC.

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