Benevolent Ancestor
The List IMA-12 • common
- Set
- The List
- Collector number
- IMA-12
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- 2 generic mana white mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- White
- Artist
- Nick Percival
- Market price
- $0.18
What it does
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
tap: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn.
Although the door is flimsy and the lock pathetically small, Josuri's family never fears the night outside.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperLegal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Benevolent Ancestor was originally released in the 2004 Champions of Kamigawa expansion for Magic: The Gathering. The card was designed as part of the set's Spirit-tribal theme, which drew heavily from Japanese folklore and Shinto concepts. Mechanically, the card serves as a protective creature, embodying the spiritual guardians central to the lore of the Kamigawa plane.
The card features artwork by the illustrator Darrell Riche, who utilized a soft, ethereal aesthetic to convey the protective and spectral nature of the creature. Within the context of The List—a curated collection of reprints included in Set Boosters—this specific version utilizes the Iconics Masters frame, reflecting the card's history of being selected for reprinting due to its functional utility in limited-environment gameplay.
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