Mantle of the Ancients
- Mana cost
- {3}{W}{W}
- Type
- Enchantment — Aura
- Set
- Fallout #980 (rare)
Enchant creature you control
When this Aura enters, return any number of target Aura and/or Equipment cards from your graveyard to the battlefield attached to enchanted creature.
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 for each Aura and Equipment attached to it.
Mantle of the Ancients has 7 printings, first in Forgotten Realms Commander (2021). EDHREC ranks it #1,447 among Commander cards. It appears most in Light-Paws, Emperor's Voice decks (9,906 on EDHREC). 3 public decks on TCG run it. It has 3 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 Mantle of the Ancients
- Aura of Courage - Forgotten Realms Commander, led by Galea, Kindler of Hope
- Scrappy Survivors - Fallout, led by Dogmeat, Ever Loyal
- Virtue and Valor - Wilds of Eldraine Commander, led by Ellivere of the Wild Court
Commanders that run Mantle of the Ancients most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Light-Paws, Emperor's Voice: 9,906 decks
- Dogmeat, Ever Loyal: 7,743 decks
- Arna Kennerüd, Skycaptain: 4,667 decks
- Killian, Decisive Mentor: 4,100 decks
- Galea, Kindler of Hope: 4,007 decks
- Ellivere of the Wild Court: 3,980 decks
- Eriette of the Charmed Apple: 3,482 decks
- Uril, the Miststalker: 3,323 decks
Often played with Mantle of the Ancients
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : As the enters-the-battlefield ability is resolving, any targets that couldn't be legally attached to the creature enchanted by Mantle of the Ancients stay in your graveyard.
- : If Mantle of the Ancients becomes attached to a different creature in response to its enters-the-battlefield ability, the creature it's attached to as that ability is resolving is the "enchanted creature," even though you used the original enchanted creature to choose targets. This means some of those targets may become illegal.
- : If Mantle of the Ancients leaves the battlefield before its enters-the-battlefield ability resolves, the last permanent it was attached to before leaving the battlefield is the "enchanted creature" (even if that permanent is no longer a creature).