Tabernacle

[clavio]

I have a Tabernacle. Opponent has an Awakening. During his upkeep does he get his 0/1 guy before or after Tabernacle takes effect?

[cdr]

The token from Awakening Zone will have the Tabernacle-granted trigger as soon as it's created, but both the Awakening Zone trigger and the Tabernacle-granted trigger happen at beginning of upkeep. Since you're past the beginning of upkeep when the Awakening Zone trigger resolves, the Tabernacle-granted trigger for the new token won't trigger that turn.

Tabernacle-granted triggers for tokens already on the battlefield will obviously happen, and since he controls both those triggers and the Awakening Zone trigger, he can stack those however he likes. He could, say, have Awakening Zone resolve first and then sacrifice that token to pay for an older token's Tabernacle-granted trigger.

[Julian23]

I assumee you're talking about Awakening Zone, not the Stronghold card Awakening.

First of, there is noch such thing as "takes effect". The ability granted to creatures by Tabernacle triggers for each creature that the player, who's turn it is, controls at the beginning of his upkeep. At the same time Awakening Zone triggers. Since your opponent controls both triggers he gets to chose in which order to stack those.

Note that this is due to the fact that it is not Tabernacle itself that triggers in upkeeps. It only awards a triggered ability to creatures. This is important because otherwise Awakening Zone would always resolve after Tabernacle following the APNAP (Active Player - Nonactive Player) rule ("principle"?).

Bonus content: In case you're wondering, you don't have to pay the upkeep cost for a token put into play by Awakening Zone the turn it is created. This is due to the fact that once Awakening Zone's ability resolves, the "beginning of the upkeep" is already over.