Magic: The Gathering

Ancient Stirrings

Mystery Booster 2 202 • common

Set: Mystery Booster 2
Collector number: 202
Rarity: Common
Mana cost: green mana
Type: Sorcery
Colors: Green
Artist: Emrah Elmasli
Market price: $1.26

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What it's worth

$1.26market price via TCGplayer · Oct 7, 2026$1.04 – $1.46 over the tracked period

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Lore

Why it matters

This card from the Mystery Booster 2 set is a common rarity piece that showcases the utility of searching one's library for specific land or colorless cards. Its function at the table provides reliable consistency, helping players smooth out their resource development during the early stages of a game.

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Card face

What it does

Look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal a colorless card from among them and put it into your hand. Then put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Formats

Where you can play it

StandardNot legal
PioneerNot legal
ModernLegal
LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
CommanderLegal
PauperLegal
BrawlNot legal
HistoricNot legal
TimelessNot legal
Penny DreadfulNot legal
OathbreakerLegal

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Provenance

Where it came from

Ancient Stirrings was originally printed in the 2010 set Rise of the Eldrazi as a common-rarity sorcery. Designed to support the set's themes of colorless interaction and graveyard recursion, it quickly became a staple in the Magic: The Gathering competitive landscape, particularly within the Modern and Pauper formats, for its efficiency in digging for specific utility cards.

The Mystery Booster 2 version features the card's original illustration by Dave Kendall, who utilized a moody, atmospheric aesthetic to capture the eldritch nature of the Eldrazi theme. The reprint serves as a nod to the card's enduring legacy in deck-building, maintaining its iconic look while introducing it to a new generation of players through the Mystery Booster platform.

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