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Ancestor's Prophet

Creature — Human Cleric

Tap five untapped Clerics you control: You gain 10 life.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{4}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
rare
Set
Onslaught
Price
$0.53
EDHREC rank
#21295
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Ancestor's Prophet card art
Ancestor's Prophet gains your team 5 life per activation — and with Beledros Witherbloom on the battlefield, that translates directly into untapping every land you control. The setup cost is real: you need five tapped Clerics, which demands a dedicated tribal shell, but the payoff in the right deck is immediate and repeatable.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Ancestor's Prophet is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but its competitive ceiling is firmly Commander. Legacy and Vintage have no interest in a five-mana creature that requires five tapped Clerics to do anything — the setup cost is laughable in those formats. In Commander, dedicated Cleric tribal shells can assemble the condition reliably enough that Ancestor's Prophet becomes a legitimate value engine, especially when paired with life-total payoffs.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.53 bulk tier

At $0.53, Ancestor's Prophet sits squarely in bulk territory — cheap enough to slot into any Cleric tribal build without a second thought. Bulk mythics from older sets rarely recover unless a combo breakout forces repricing, so treat this as a stable pickup with no meaningful upside beyond the games it wins you.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.