Kindly Ancestor // Ancestor's Embrace
Creature — Spirit // Enchantment — Aura
Lifelink
Disturb 
(You may cast this card from your graveyard transformed for its disturb cost.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Innistrad: Crimson Vow
- Price
- $0.16
- EDHREC rank
- #18296
Kindly Ancestor // Ancestor's Embrace trades a 2/3 vigilance body for a permanent Pacifism attached to a creature you control — locking down a threat while leaving you an enchantment to build on. The front face is slow and the back face is narrow, which keeps this out of most competitive lists.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Kindly Ancestor // Ancestor's Embrace fills a narrow role in enchantress or Aura-matters builds that want both a cheap body and a removal-adjacent effect — but a 2/3 for three mana that dies into a Pacifism rarely pulls enough weight in a 100-card format where threats are larger and faster. Pauper is where Kindly Ancestor // Ancestor's Embrace has the most realistic home: the format's lower power ceiling makes a vigilance blocker that transforms into a permanent Pacifism genuinely impactful, and white Aura synergies are plentiful there. In Modern and Pioneer it's too slow and too low-impact to see play outside of casual brews. Legacy and Vintage have no interest in this effect at any mana cost.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.16 bulk tier
At $0.16, Kindly Ancestor // Ancestor's Embrace sits firmly in bulk territory and is unlikely to move without a sudden spike in Pauper Aura demand. Pick it up freely as a role-player, but don't expect the price to budge.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.