Walk with the Ancestors

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Walk with the Ancestors: Sorcery, The Lost Caverns of Ixalan. Return up to one target permanent card from your graveyard to your hand. On Mana Grove.

Mana cost
{4}{G}
Mana value
5
Type
Sorcery
Colour identity
Green (G)
Rarity
Common
Set
The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI)
Released
2023-11-17
Collector number
218
Artist
Loïc Canavaggia
Commander rank
12,518 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
Keywords
Discover

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About Walk with the Ancestors

Walk with the Ancestors is a Magic: The Gathering card, a common green sorcery from The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI), an expansion set released in November 2023. It is collector number 218 in that set, with art by Loïc Canavaggia. It costs {4}{G} (four generic and one green mana) to cast, for a mana value of 5. Its colour identity is green. It is legal in Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Pauper Commander, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Historic, Timeless and Gladiator. The Lost Caverns of Ixalan is its only printing so far. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.20 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-01).

Card text

Return up to one target permanent card from your graveyard to your hand. Discover 4. (Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with mana value 4 or less. Cast it without paying its mana cost or put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)

Market price

Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.20 (as of 2026-11-01).

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Format legality

Legality of Walk with the Ancestors by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.

StandardLegal
PioneerLegal
ModernLegal
LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
PauperLegal
CommanderLegal
Duel CommanderLegal
OathbreakerLegal
Pauper CommanderLegal
BrawlLegal
Standard BrawlLegal
HistoricLegal
TimelessLegal
GladiatorLegal

Official rulings

The 8 most recent official rulings for Walk with the Ancestors, newest first.

  • The mana value of a split card is determined by the combined mana cost of its two halves. If discover allows you to cast a split card, you may cast either half (as long as its mana value is less than or equal to the effect's discover value) but not both halves.
  • If you can't cast the discovered card (perhaps because there are no legal targets for the spell), you'll put it into your hand.
  • A spell's mana value is determined only by its mana cost. Ignore any alternative costs, additional costs, cost increases, or cost reductions.
  • Some spells and abilities that cause you to discover may require targets. If each target chosen is an illegal target as that spell or ability tries to resolve, it won't resolve and you won't discover.
  • If you cast a spell "without paying its mana cost", you can't choose to cast it for any alternative costs. You can, however, pay additional costs. If the spell has any mandatory additional costs, you must pay those to cast it.
  • If the discovered card has {X} in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost.
  • You exile the cards face up. All players will be able to see them.
  • If you discover an adventurer card, split card, or modal double-faced card, you might be able to cast that card with either set of characteristics depending on the effect's discover value. For example, if you discover 4 and reveal Galvanic Giant (an adventurer card from Wilds of Eldraine with a mana value of 4), you could cast Galvanic Giant, but not Storm Reading (its Adventure, which has a mana value of 7). If you discover 7 and reveal Galvanic Giant, you could cast either Galvanic Giant or Storm Reading.

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