Path of Ancestry
Mystery Booster Commander Edition 80 • common
- Set
- Mystery Booster Commander Edition
- Collector number
- 80
- Rarity
- Common
- Type
- Land
- Colors
- Colorless
- Artist
- Alayna Danner
What it does
This land enters tapped.
tap: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernNot legal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperLegal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Path of Ancestry first appeared in the Commander 2017 set as a staple utility land designed to support the tribal mechanics that define many Commander decks. The card was specifically created to provide mana-fixing for multi-color decks while offering a reliable card-filtering effect, colloquially known as scrying, whenever a player casts a creature spell that shares a type with their commander.
The artwork for this version, illustrated by Dimitar Marinski, leans into the grand, ethereal aesthetic of Magic: The Gathering's high-fantasy world-building. It depicts a mystical, glowing pathway that evokes a sense of journeying through time or lineage. Since its debut, the card has become a widely utilized inclusion in the Commander format, favored for its functional efficiency and its ability to smooth out draws in decks built around specific creature types.
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