Talk:Awakening/@comment-6709481-20150928002625/@comment-26573907-20150928010343

Correct, you can awaken at level 1.

If you don't have the materials to awaken the card yet, it won't hurt to start putting atk/def arcanas into it, since the stats gained transfer over fully upon awakening. You can also do this as away to lower the total gold cost of all the fusions, since awakening resets the level back to 1 and the gold cost is based on level.