Ancient Stirrings
Sorcery
Look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal a colorless card from among them and put it into your hand. Then put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Modern Horizons 3 Commander
- Price
- $0.30
- EDHREC rank
- #8089
Ancient Stirrings digs five cards deep for one green mana and hands you any colorless card it finds — lands, artifacts, Eldrazi, whatever the deck needs most. In a colorless-heavy shell like Ulalek, Fused Atrocity, that hits so frequently it functions as a one-mana tutor with upside.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Ulalek, Fused Atrocity
Ulalek, Fused Atrocity runs a near-entirely colorless pile, which means Ancient Stirrings almost always finds a live hit from the top five — a key Eldrazi, a missing piece of the mana base, or a combo artifact — making it one of the most consistent one-drops in the deck.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Ancient Stirrings is legal in Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, Commander, and Oathbreaker, and it has threatened bans in Modern more than once because colorless-dense decks — Tron, Eldrazi, Amulet — convert it into a de facto Brainstorm at one mana. In Pauper it anchors similar artifact and Tron strategies at common, which keeps it perpetually on the watch list there too. Commander is where it earns a slot without controversy in any deck running a critical mass of colorless permanents: Eldrazi commanders, artifact commanders, and land-matters builds all cash it reliably. Outside colorless-heavy shells it shrinks fast — a deck with a normal spread of colored spells whiffs too often to justify the slot.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.30 bulk tier
At $0.30, Ancient Stirrings is firmly bulk — high supply from multiple printings has kept it there despite the raw power level. It's a safe pickup that won't spike unexpectedly, so there's no urgency beyond just grabbing a copy whenever you need one.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.