For the Ancestors
- Mana cost
- {2}{G}
- Type
- Instant
- Set
- Commander Masters #770 (rare)
- Price
- $2.42 USD
Choose a creature type. Look at the top six cards of your library. You may reveal any number of cards of the chosen type from among them and put the revealed cards into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Flashback {3}{G} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
For the Ancestors has 2 printings, first in Commander Masters (2023). EDHREC ranks it #8,292 among Commander cards. It appears most in The First Sliver decks (3,947 on EDHREC). 1 public deck on TCG runs it. It has 6 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: not legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Public decks that run For the Ancestors
- Sliver Swarm - Commander Masters, led by Sliver Gravemother
Commanders that run For the Ancestors most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- The First Sliver: 3,947 decks
- Sliver Overlord: 1,230 decks
- Sliver Gravemother: 1,067 decks
- Sliver Hivelord: 924 decks
- Ayula, Queen Among Bears: 442 decks
- Rukarumel, Biologist: 362 decks
- Sliver Legion: 231 decks
- Sliver Queen: 181 decks
Often played with For the Ancestors
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : If a card with flashback is put into your graveyard during your turn, you can cast it if it's legal to do so before any other player can take any actions.
- : You can cast a spell using flashback even if it was somehow put into your graveyard without having been cast.
- : A spell cast using flashback will always be exiled afterward, whether it resolves, is countered, or leaves the stack in some other way.
- : To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost (such as a flashback cost) you're paying, add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. The mana value of the spell is determined only by its mana cost, no matter what the total cost to cast the spell was.
- : You must still follow any timing restrictions and permissions, including those based on the card's type. For instance, you can cast a sorcery using flashback only when you could normally cast a sorcery.
- : "Flashback [cost]" means "You may cast this card from your graveyard by paying [cost] rather than paying its mana cost" and "If the flashback cost was paid, exile this card instead of putting it anywhere else any time it would leave the stack."