For the Ancestors
Instant
Choose a creature type. Look at the top six cards of your library. You may reveal any number of cards of the chosen type from among them and put the revealed cards into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Flashback 
(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Commander Masters
- Price
- $4.08
- EDHREC rank
- #7524
For the Ancestors puts every Sliver you've ever cast back into your hand — all at once, at instant speed — for five mana and the cost of your graveyard. That's a full hand refill in any Sliver deck that's been grinding, and The First Sliver makes it even more explosive by cascading into it off a Sliver cast.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
The First Sliver
The First Sliver cascades on every Sliver cast, which means For the Ancestors can hit off the top of a chain — and once it resolves, the freshly refilled hand of Slivers becomes fresh cascade fuel to rebuild the board immediately.
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 |
For the Ancestors is a Commander card through and through — the format's longer games mean you'll actually accumulate a graveyard worth recovering, and a hand refill of ten-plus Slivers is a genuine game-ending threat in a 100-card singleton context. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but the effect is too slow and too conditional to compete; those formats punish five-mana sorcery-speed graveyard effects that require a specific deck archetype to function. Oathbreaker could support it in a Sliver shell, but the 60-card singleton constraint shrinks the payoff. Stick to Commander.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$4.08 cheap tier
At $4.08, For the Ancestors sits at the low end of mythic-rare pricing, which makes sense for a card with a narrow but devoted audience. It won't appreciate dramatically, but it also won't crater — Sliver tribal is a perennial Commander archetype, so steady demand should keep it in this range.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.