Ancestral Vision
Time Spiral 48 • rare
- Set
- Time Spiral
- Collector number
- 48
- Rarity
- Rare
- Type
- Sorcery
- Colors
- Blue
- Artist
- Mark Poole
- Market price
- $3.77
What it does
Suspend 4—blue mana (Rather than cast this card from your hand, pay blue mana and exile it with four time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.)
Target player draws three cards.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Ancestral Vision was released in 2006 as part of the Time Spiral set for Magic: The Gathering. It was designed as a 'timeshifted' card, a functional reimagining of the powerful 1993 card Ancestral Recall. While the original card allowed players to draw three cards instantly for one mana, the developers at Wizards of the Coast utilized the new suspend mechanic to balance the effect, forcing players to wait four turns to receive the cards, thereby creating a slower, more strategic investment.
The card’s illustration was created by artist Dan Dos Santos, who leaned into an ethereal, dreamlike aesthetic to capture the concept of peering into the past. Within the context of the Time Spiral set—which focused on the theme of nostalgia and the breakdown of time within the game's multiverse—the card was highly sought after by players. It is widely considered one of the most effective examples of power-level adjustment in the game's history, as it successfully brought a banned vintage effect into a modern competitive format.
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