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◇ Catalog #338

Ruinous Path

DIGITAL ONLY

pio·#338·uncommon·nonfoil

Illus. Jaime Jones

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in vault

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for trade

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wishlisted

Dec '24

1 yr ago

Played in EDH

EDHrec rank #16,630 · Fringe play

Variants

Nonfoil

Gameplay

Sorcery

Destroy target creature or planeswalker. Awaken 4—{5}{B}{B} (If you cast this spell for {5}{B}{B}, also put four +1/+1 counters on target land you control and it becomes a 0/0 Elemental creature with haste. It's still a land.)

Legalities

tlrlegal

duellegal

brawllegal

pennylegal

PreDH

Rulings · 6

2015-08-25wotc

Awaken doesn’t give the land you control a color. As most lands are colorless, in most cases the resulting land creature will also be colorless.

2015-08-25wotc

If the non-awaken part of the spell doesn’t require a target and you cast the spell for its awaken cost, then the spell won’t resolve if the target land you control becomes illegal before the spell resolves (such as due to being destroyed in response to the spell being cast).

2015-08-25wotc

If a spell with awaken has multiple targets (including the land you control), and some but not all of those targets become illegal by the time the spell tries to resolve, the spell won’t affect the illegal targets in any way.

Context

This printing is one of 2 catalogued treatments from PIO — the lineup includes Nonfoil alongside the standard finish. Across our catalog the Rarix library tracks every variant in the same family so collectors can compare price, scarcity and demand inside a single lineage.

Card #338 of *Pioneer Masters*, the set that shipped alongside the December 2024 Pioneer Masters release.

Card type: Sorcery, color identity black, printed at uncommon. Uncommons fill the middle-tier slots in a standard booster configuration. Mana cost: {1}{B}{B} (3 converted). Keyword abilities: Awaken.

Legal across the major constructed formats — Modern, Legacy, Vintage, and Commander — plus Standard rotation play.

EDHrec ranks this card #16,630 in Commander, putting it in the fringe-play tier of the format's playable pool.

Illustrated by Jaime Jones. Rarix catalogs 552 other cards credited to this artist.