Path of Ancestry
Land
"Your mother would have been so proud."
- Finishes
- Foil
- Border
- black
- Security stamp
- triangle
- Frame
- 2015
- Pull rate
- ~1 in 147
- Illustrator
- Marco Gorlei
- Found in
- Fallout Collector Booster Pack
Constructed
Commander
Arena
Other
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
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7 · latest Jul 28, 2023
- WotCJul 28, 2023
If you have two commanders, the last ability adds one mana of any color in their combined color identities. When you spend that mana on a creature spell that shares a creature type with either of your commanders, you'll scry 1.
- WotCJul 28, 2023
Your commander's creature types are checked immediately after you cast a creature spell spending mana from Path of Ancestry's last ability. They aren't set before the game begins, and they may not be the same types your commander had when you activated that ability.
- WotCNov 10, 2020
If Path of Ancestry's last ability produces two mana (most likely due to Mana Reflection), spending those two mana to cast creature spells that share a creature type with your commander will cause two abilities to trigger. Each of those abilities will cause you to scry 1. You won't scry 2. This is true whether you spend the mana on one creature spell or two.
- WotCNov 10, 2020
If you cast your commander with mana from Path of Ancestry, and your commander hasn't somehow lost all of its creature types while on the stack, you'll scry 1.
- WotCNov 10, 2020
If you don't have a commander, Path of Ancestry's ability produces no mana.
- WotCNov 10, 2020
If your commander has no creature types, it can't share a creature type with any spell that you cast.
- WotCNov 10, 2020
If your commander is a card that has no colors in its color identity, Path of Ancestry's ability produces no mana. It doesn't produce
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