Ancestral Tribute
Sorcery
You gain 2 life for each card in your graveyard.
Flashback 
(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
- CMC
- 7
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Odyssey
- Price
- $0.38
- EDHREC rank
- #25174
Ancestral Tribute gains you life equal to twice the number of cards in your graveyard — in a deck that fills its bin, that number hits 30, 40, or higher with trivial effort. The ask is six mana at sorcery speed for an effect that wins no board states, which makes it a finisher only in dedicated lifegain-matters shells.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is the only format where Ancestral Tribute has a real home, and even there it earns its slot only in a narrow band of decks — primarily white lifegain commanders like Oloro, Ageless Ascetic or Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim that can convert a massive life total into a win condition. Legacy and Vintage are legal but irrelevant; no competitive list wants a six-mana sorcery that gains life. Ancestral Tribute is a Commander card in the fullest sense: slow, splashy, and reliant on a game going long enough for the graveyard to stack up.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.38 bulk tier
At $0.38, Ancestral Tribute sits firmly in bulk — easy to pick up, easy to trade for. It's unlikely to climb; the card sees narrow play and has no competitive demand pressuring the price upward.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.