Ancestral Memories
Portal 40 • rare
- Set
- Portal
- Collector number
- 40
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana cost
- 2 generic mana blue mana blue mana blue mana
- Type
- Sorcery
- Colors
- Blue
- Artist
- Dan Frazier
- Market price
- $0.49
What it does
Look at the top seven cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernNot legal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Ancestral Memories was released in 1997 as part of the Portal expansion set for Magic: The Gathering. This set was designed specifically to serve as an entry point for new players, featuring simplified rules and mechanics that omitted complex stack interactions. The card was intended to provide a straightforward representation of the blue mana color identity, focusing on card advantage through the thematic lens of retrieving knowledge from the past.
The artwork for this card was illustrated by Donato Giancola, a prominent fantasy artist known for his painterly, classical style. His depiction captures a reflective, ethereal quality that aligns with the card's function of digging through the library. While Portal was initially received with mixed reactions by seasoned tournament players due to its simplified nature, the card remains a notable artifact from a formative era of the game's expansion strategy.
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