Path of Ancestry

Land

Path of Ancestry enters the battlefield tapped.

: Gain one mana of any colour in your commander's colour identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1.

Discussion (47)

multimedia on WTH KAALIA!!!!

4 days ago

Hey, you're welcome.

My next advice is consider improving the manabase? More dual lands in place of some basic lands, Bloodfell Caves and Immersturm Skullcairn to help color fixing. 27 basic lands is a lot for a three color deck since you risk drawing all of one or two types of basic lands. On a budget there's several lands to consider adding:

• Exotic Orchard
• Caves of Koilos
• Battlefield Forge
• Path of Ancestry
• Nomad Outpost
• Tainted Field
• Smoldering Marsh
• Ash Barrens
• Evolving Wilds
• Orzhov Basilica
• Rakdos Carnarium

Lands that will always ETB untapped are better, but there aren't a lot of budget options. The next tiers of prices for some lands for future upgrades ($4 lowest to $10 highest):

• $4 Pathways: Needleverge Pathway  ^Flip, Brightclimb Pathway  ^Flip
• $5 Filter lands: Graven Cairns , Rugged Prairie , Fetid Heath
• $5-7: Bond lands: Spectator Seating , Vault of Champions
• $5-6 Check lands: Dragonskull Summit , Isolated Chapel
• $8-10 Shock lands: Godless Shrine

multimedia on League Angels

1 week ago

Hey, well done on a $50 budget. You have good card sense if you're new on such a low budget.

I will try to match my suggestions with cards to consider cutting that are close to or equal in price. Some changes to consider:

• Sol Ring --> Swords to Plowshares
• Arcane Signet --> Syphon Mind
• Arguel's Blood Fast  ^Flip --> Succumb to Temptation
• Sephara, Sky's Blade --> Seraph of the Scales
• Righteous Valkyrie --> Deathpact Angel
• Angelic Accord --> Promise of Bunrei
• Firja, Judge of Valor --> Luminous Angel
• Soul Warden --> Imperious Oligarch
• Victimize --> Defy Death
• Make a Stand --> Doom Blade
• Emerge Unscathed --> Cast Down
• Command Tower --> 1x Plains
• Caves of Koilos --> Temple of Silence
• Path of Ancestry --> 1x Plains
• Tainted Field --> 1x Plains
• Orzhov Basilica --> 1x Plains
• Opal Palace --> 1x Plains

Swords to Plowshares is the most expensive card here and you have many other removal spells to make up for not having it. Sol Ring is a staple mana rock in Commander and it's more ramp that can help to cast high CMC Angels. With Angels repeatable low mana cost ramp is more important then a single creature removal spell.

Good luck with your deck.

Malsorn on Tana/Ravos

1 week ago

Path of Ancestry would be a strict upgrade over any of the trilands, gets an extra color and it scries sometimes!

multimedia on Lathril, you didnt

1 week ago

Hey, nice upgrades to the precon.

Green mana is much more important than black mana with Elves. Having an equal amount of Forests and Swamps can be problematic since you could draw all Swamps and no Forests which will be difficult to cast Elves. Elves of Deep Shadow is a helpful one drop mana Elf because can make black mana. Elvish Harbinger is an Elf tutor and can make black mana. Consider cutting some Swamps for more Golgari dual lands?

• Llanowar Wastes
• Undergrowth Stadium
• Overgrown Tomb
• Unclaimed Territory
• Nurturing Peatland
• Twilight Mire
• Woodland Cemetery
• Blooming Marsh
• Tainted Wood
• Path of Ancestry
• Golgari Rot Farm

multimedia on Walking With Dinosaurs

1 week ago

Hey, well done on a budget.

Command Tower , Exotic Orchard and Path of Ancestry are staple budget rainbow lands in Commander. Currently Farseek and Three Visits can't search for a white dual land only Cinder Glade . The new Snow dual lands Alpine Meadow and Arctic Treeline are two different land types one being Plains.

Court of Bounty is a good card with Dinos since it can potentially cheat them from your hand onto the battlefield or it lets you put a land. The monarch can be repeatable draw and Dinos can be good blockers to keep the monarch. Berserkers' Onslaught can give Gishath double strike and if he does combat damage to a player then you trigger his ability twice. Double strike makes all other Dinos more powerful and has bonkers interaction with Quartzwood Crasher .

Some changes to consider:

• Command Tower --> 1x Forest
• Exotic Orchard --> 1x Mountain
• Path of Ancestry --> 1x Plains
• Alpine Meadow --> Wind-Scarred Crag
• Arctic Treeline --> Graypelt Refuge
• Court of Bounty --> Colossal Majesty
• Berserkers' Onslaught --> Thundering Spineback

Good luck with your deck.

Arachosik on Rakdos Dragon actual

2 weeks ago

Hi! Thanks for your advices! I'm actually thinking about yours propositions of cards. Actually I bought: Burnished Hart -> Gadrak, the Crown-Scourge - I don't like Gadrak, really, it was bad choice Hellkite Courser -> Forgestoker Dragon - I don't need that card, cause my creatures have flying and they are so strong Path of Ancestry -> I don't know, probably for mountain I have too: Terminate Torrent of Souls - it's better Bond of Revival for me. I'm slowly buying new, more expensive cards. They are in my maybeboard. Discarding a cards is very important mechanic in my deck, but I want to have mana to casting my creatures from hand too. I think about cards like a Glint-Horn Buccaneer (I have) too, but making my deck with discarding mechanic means rebuilding all deck.

HorrorLegend on Trans Rights (Alesha)

2 weeks ago

Awesome deck! Love the commander. Certainly one of those I love seeing at the table because I know there's going to be a lot of fun.

Some recommendations for cuts: Ancestral Blade seems kind of weak for the deck. Give you a token you cant recur with Alesha and only gives +1/+1. Boros Signet and Rakdos Signet , as I don't generally like the signet's, but I know a lot of people like them. Promise of Tomorrow seems like a good win con card, but it doesn't work with this deck since Alesha want's to bring creatures back from the graveyard. Inspiring Captain seems like a good card for the deck, but you cant bring it back with Alesha and really will only help once or twice at best. Archetype of Aggression , Rogue's Passage , Demystify , Return to Dust , Shimmering Grotto , and Take Vengeance , are other cut's ID make personally. They don't add enough or do enough and there better options available.

I would add Savai Triome , Path of Ancestry , Helm of the Host , and Sigiled Sword of Valeron . You could just swap a basic land for the Triome.

I would consider switching: Act of Treason for Act of Aggression , and Murder for Go for the Throat .

I could see Rise of the Dark Realms being an awesome card with this deck, but it fits in almost all deck hahah.

I hope these recommendations helped. Upvote from me.

multimedia on Rakdos Dragon actual

3 weeks ago

Hey, good job on a budget. Nice Demonic Tutor :)

Some $1-$2 cards to consider adding:

• Dark Ritual
• Seething Song
• Seize the Spoils
• Mana Geyser
• Exhume
• Final Parting
• Magus of the Wheel
• Mask of Memory
• Faithless Looting
• Dragon Breath
• Dragon Mage
• Glorybringer
• Azra Oddsmaker
• Victimize
• Chaos Warp

Some budget land upgrades to consider:

• Unclaimed Territory --> Looming Spires
• Smoldering Marsh --> Bloodfell Caves
• Jund Panorama --> 1x Mountain
• Path of Ancestry --> 1x Mountain
• Shadowblood Ridge --> 1x Mountain
• Ash Barrens --> 1x Mountain
• Temple of Malice --> 1x Swamp

If interested I offer more advice including cuts to consider. Good luck with your deck.