Walk with the Ancestors
Sorcery
Return up to one target permanent card from your graveyard to your hand. Discover 4. (Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with mana value 4 or less. Cast it without paying its mana cost or put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The Lost Caverns of Ixalan
- Price
- $0.20
- EDHREC rank
- #12028
Walk with the Ancestors puts a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control and gives them all trample until end of turn — that's a combat finisher stapled to a permanent pump, not a one-shot trick. At three mana it's efficiently costed, and in any deck that goes wide with creatures, it frequently ends games the turn it resolves.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Radha, Heir to Keld
Radha, Heir to Keld attacks to produce mana, so the trample clause on Walk with the Ancestors directly enables that gameplan — trampling through blockers means Radha connects, mana flows, and the extra +1/+1 counters make the whole board harder to stop.
Ruby, Daring Tracker
Ruby, Daring Tracker cares about having creatures with counters on them, so Walk with the Ancestors does double duty: it builds the counter density Ruby wants while simultaneously making the attack that follows it nearly impossible to chump.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Walk with the Ancestors is legal across every major format but Commander is where it actually sees play — wide creature strategies in 1v1 formats can find more targeted finishers, but in a four-player pod the permanent +1/+1 counter bonus scales with every creature you've accumulated. Outside Commander, it competes with cheaper or more flexible pump spells in Pauper and Pioneer, and it's unlikely to displace them. Treat it as a Commander card that happens to have other format stamps.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.20 bulk tier
At $0.20, Walk with the Ancestors is deep bulk — pick it up without a second thought. Bulk rares with narrow homes rarely climb unless something in a future set puts their archetype into the spotlight, so don't expect appreciation, but there's no reason to pay more than a quarter for one.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.