Pilgrim of the Ages
Creature — Spirit
When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic Plains card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Strixhaven: School of Mages
- Price
- $0.04
- EDHREC rank
- #17624
Pilgrim of the Ages fetches a Plains on entry and returns itself from the graveyard for two mana, giving white decks a repeatable land-grab that doubles as graveyard recursion fodder. The rate is slow, but the redundancy is real — any deck that cares about Plains in the bin or needs a resilient mana-fixer will find a use for it.
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, Pilgrim of the Ages earns a slot in Plains-synergy builds — Emeria, the Sky Ruin decks, Mono-White grind lists, and anything that loops enters-the-battlefield triggers off white creatures. Pauper is where it gets genuinely interesting: the combination of a 1/1 body, a land fetch, and a self-recurring engine is unusual at common and has seen fringe play in white-based control shells. In Modern and Pioneer it's too slow to compete with faster ramp and better bodies, and Legacy and Vintage have no interest in a two-mana 1/1 that finds basics. Stick to Pauper or Commander — those are the formats where the recursion clause actually matters.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.04 bulk tier
At $0.04, Pilgrim of the Ages is deep bulk — the kind of card you pull from a common box without thinking twice. Price stability at this tier is a given; it won't rise without a reprint spike or a breakout Pauper list, and neither is likely soon.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.