Quest for Ancient Secrets
Zendikar 59 • uncommon
- Set
- Zendikar
- Collector number
- 59
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Mana cost
- blue mana
- Type
- Enchantment
- Colors
- Blue
- Artist
- Mike Bierek
- Market price
- $0.24
What it does
Whenever a card is put into your graveyard from anywhere, you may put a quest counter on this enchantment.
Remove five quest counters from this enchantment and sacrifice it: Target player shuffles their graveyard into their library.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Quest for Ancient Secrets was released in 2009 as part of the Zendikar expansion for Magic: The Gathering. The set focused heavily on the mechanics of exploration, land-based synergies, and the thematic discovery of artifacts and hidden treasures within a dangerous, high-adventure wilderness. As an enchantment, this card embodies the set's core gameplay loop of interacting with the graveyard to facilitate long-term resource management.
The card was illustrated by the artist Dan Dos Santos, who leaned into a pulpy, archaeological aesthetic to capture the spirit of the Zendikar setting. By depicting an explorer uncovering ancient relics, the artwork serves to ground the card's mechanical utility in the flavor of the set's overarching narrative. Upon its release, it was regarded as a niche utility card, recognized more for its specific interaction with graveyard-recursion strategies than for broad competitive dominance.
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