Ancestor's Chosen
Judgment 1 • uncommon
- Set
- Judgment
- Collector number
- 1
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Mana cost
- 5 generic mana white mana white mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- White
- Artist
- Pete Venters
- Market price
- $0.24
What it does
First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)
When this creature enters, you gain 1 life for each card in your graveyard.
Empowered by generations of strength.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Ancestor's Chosen was released in 2002 as part of the Judgment expansion for Magic: The Gathering. As the third and final set in the Odyssey block, it leaned heavily into themes of graveyard interaction and color-specific mechanics. The card was designed to function as a mid-to-late game stabilizer for white decks, rewarding players for maintaining a graveyard to gain life, reflecting the set's broader focus on the cycle of life and death within the game's lore.
The artwork for the card was created by illustrator Edward P. Beard Jr., who contributed extensively to the game during this era. His design utilizes a somber, ethereal aesthetic to capture the spirit of an ancestral guardian. Upon its release, the card was generally viewed as a situational defensive tool, notable for its ability to swing the life totals in limited formats like booster draft, though it saw more limited utility in the faster-paced competitive constructed formats of the time.
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