Mantle of the Ancients
Mantle of the Ancients: Enchantment - Aura, Wilds of Eldraine Commander. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {3}{W}{W}
- Mana value
- 5
- Type
- Enchantment - Aura
- Colour identity
- White (W)
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- Wilds of Eldraine Commander (WOC)
- Released
- 2023-09-08
- Collector number
- 70
- Artist
- Lucas Graciano
- Commander rank
- 1,370 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
- Keywords
- Enchant
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About Mantle of the Ancients
Mantle of the Ancients is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare white enchantment from Wilds of Eldraine Commander (WOC), a Commander product released in September 2023. It is collector number 70 in that set, with art by Lucas Graciano. It costs {3}{W}{W} (three generic and two white mana) to cast, for a mana value of 5. Its colour identity is white. It is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander and Oathbreaker. It has been printed in 3 sets, from Forgotten Realms Commander (2021) to Fallout (2024). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $7.34 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-03).
Card text
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.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $7.34 (as of 2026-11-03).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Mantle of the Ancients by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Legacy | Legal |
|---|---|
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
Other printings of Mantle of the Ancients
Mantle of the Ancients has been printed in 3 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Fallout (PIP) #165 | Rare | 2024 |
| Fallout (PIP) #452 | Rare | 2024 |
| Fallout (PIP) #693 | Rare | 2024 |
| Fallout (PIP) #980 | Rare | 2024 |
| Forgotten Realms Commander (AFC) #277 | Rare | 2021 |
| Forgotten Realms Commander (AFC) #8 | Rare | 2021 |
Official rulings
Three official rulings apply to Mantle of the Ancients, newest first.
- 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).
Similar cards
Other enchantment cards with a white colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.
In these precons
Mantle of the Ancients is in the decklist of these preconstructed Commander decks.