Ancestral Memories

Sorcery

Look at the top seven cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Premodern	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (5)

Optimator on Mermaider

3 years ago

Owned:

Brainstorm - Deepfathom Skulker - Mind Spring - Fathom Trawl - Patient Rebuilding - Fact or Fiction - Divination - Borrowing 100,000 Arrows - Fascination - Loyal Drake - Thought Sponge - Insight - Ancestral Memories - Kumena's Awakening - Opportunity - Verity Circle - Arcanis the Omnipotent - Deep Analysis - Rush of Knowledge - Keep Watch

isaacmartin623 on Through the looking glass

4 years ago

I really like the thematic deck idea! How apposed are you to using unset cards? While they technically aren't legal in commander, this deck doesn't exactly strike me as trying to play in tournaments. I'm mostly asking for Pippa, Duchess of Dice who seems pretty thematically appropriate. Even if you decide not, Ancestral Memories directly references the book, as does Pearled Unicorn. Others include Zodiac Rabbit (For obvious reasons) Diminish (Shrinking) Into the Story or Once Upon a Time also work well. Grumgully, the Generous could also be a mad-hatter character, still bested by Mad Ratter though. Also, Sorcerous Spyglass

omega1563 on Azami's Wizard Gang

4 years ago

Planned Changes:

• Coming Out:

  • Sphinx of Uthuun: Not a wizard. Already have draw elsewhere.
  • Gather Specimens: Fairly expensive. Most of the time just gets one creature. Feels bad to play against.
  • Clone: Not a wizard (unless we clone one of our wizards)
  • Willbender: Can't use for draw unless face up, at which point it's just a body.
  • Voidmage Apprentice: Can't use for draw unless face up, at which point it's just a body.
  • Deadeye Navigator: Not a wizard. Offers some protection for VIPs and synergy with ETB effects, but we can probably find more utility elsewhere.
  • Thassa, God of the Sea: Not a wizard. Scry is ok, but we have draw elsewhere. Not swinging, so the unblockable component isn't used much.
  • Ixidron: Not a wizard. Hides our wizards. We have other boardwipe options.
  • Skullclamp: We prefer to keep our wizards on the board, and we don't have many tokens to sac to this, so we can get more draw elsewhere.
  • Ancestral Memories: Decent filtering, but we can get more draw and other utility elsewhere.
  • Simic Manipulator: Slow to build up. Not many big bodies to keep him growing.
  • Urza's Bauble: Just filler.
  • Fact or Fiction: We get enough draw elsewhere, we don't really need conditional draw.
  • Treasure Cruise: Potentially cheap draw is good, but we don't fill up our graveyard quickly and we generally want to keep things in there if we can.
  • Guile: Not a wizard. Fairly big body, and synergy with counters, but a bit too threatening. Want to keep a lower profile.

• Going In:

  • Stonybrook Banneret: Make all of our wizards cheaper.
  • Thassa's Oracle: Make draw a win condition
  • Laboratory Maniac: Make draw a win condition.
  • Dakra Mystic: Some group hug to make as a less likely target.
  • Baral, Chief of Compliance: Value without tapping. Synergy with spells and counters.
  • Ertai, Wizard Adept: Counterspells on a stick.
  • Naban, Dean of Iteration: Value without tapping. Synergy with ETB effects.
  • Graceful Adept: Value without tapping. Uncaps hand size.
  • Patron Wizard: All wizards are now cheap counterspells.
  • Portal Mage: Send a big bad away. Synergy with Naban.
  • Sage of Fables: Makes wizards bigger. Allows for more draw, without needing to tap. Synergy with Naban.
  • Glen Elendra Archmage: Repeatable counters when combined with Sage of Fables.
  • Surgespanner: Repeatable bounce when combined with Azami, Lady of Scrolls or Patron Wizard
  • High Tide: Instant speed ramp. Cheap enough to throw on Isochron Scepter
  • Cyclonic Rift: Clear the board. Roughly replaces Ixidron

Razulghul on Let's build around Unplayable Commanders; …

7 years ago

Easiest way to break Oathkeeper, Takeno's Daisho is with Puresteel Paladin and a sac outlet. I'm not sure but I believe it checks subtype of creature while in the graveyard so Ashes of the Fallen would make any creature come back? Might be fun with like a Solemn Simulacrum

Other infinite combos I know of are:

Angelic Renewal and Sun Titan + sac

Obvious one Nim Deathmantle or Eldrazi Displacer and Ashnod's Altar with Springjack Shepherd or Knight-Captain of Eos etc.

Ancestral Memories and Blasting Station goes infinite with any 0 cost creature.

Emeria Shepherd and Solemn Simulacrum with a sac outlet may not be infinite, but it's a game winner.

That's all I can think of atm.

ive-been-degaussed on

8 years ago

Stuff that's too weak:Battlefield Scrounger, Krosan Beast, Renowned Weaver, Necrotic Ooze (if only because people will normally kill it on sight due to it being a combo enabler), Ancestral Memories, Ana Sanctuary, Soothsaying, Cancel (at least get Undermine or something).

This deck could really use a few pieces of mass removal. I'm fond of Pernicious Deed and Black Sun's Zenith.