---
name: "Wake to Slaughter"
mana_cost: "{3}{B}{R}"
cmc: 5
type_line: "Sorcery"
colors: ["B", "R"]
color_identity: ["B", "R"]
keywords: ["Flashback"]
set: "PMID"
set_name: "Innistrad: Midnight Hunt Promos"
collector_number: "250p"
rarity: "rare"
artist: "Chris Cold"
oracle_id: "78eb5399-8c8b-4310-b585-e4ccd9d7c9cc"
canonical_url: "https://avascry.com/printing/wake-to-slaughter-pmid"
legalities:
  commander: "legal"
  standard: "not_legal"
  modern: "legal"
  pioneer: "legal"
  legacy: "legal"
  vintage: "legal"
  pauper: "not_legal"
  penny: "legal"
---

# Wake to Slaughter
- **Mana Cost:** `{3}{B}{R}` (CMC: 5)
- **Type:** Sorcery
- **Keywords:** Flashback

## Oracle Text
Choose up to two target creature cards in your graveyard. An opponent chooses one of them. Return that card to your hand. Return the other to the battlefield under your control. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.
Flashback {4}{B}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

## Top 4096-Dim Neural Synergies
1. [Gruesome Encore](/printing/gruesome-encore-mbs.md) — Sorcery
2. [Unburial Rites](/printing/unburial-rites-isd.md) — Sorcery
3. [Wake the Dead](/printing/wake-the-dead-c14.md) — Instant
4. [Macabre Mockery](/printing/macabre-mockery-rna.md) — Instant
5. [Dread Return](/printing/dread-return-prm.md) — Sorcery
6. [Bond of Revival](/printing/bond-of-revival-ajmp.md) — Sorcery

## Printing Details
- **Set:** Innistrad: Midnight Hunt Promos (PMID) #250p
- **Rarity:** Rare
- **Artist:** Chris Cold
- **Total Printings:** 21 across all historical editions

## Format Legalities
Commander: `legal` | Standard: `not_legal` | Modern: `legal` | Pioneer: `legal` | Legacy: `legal` | Vintage: `legal` | Pauper: `not_legal` | Penny: `legal`