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Path of Ancestry
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: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
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- WOTC Official Reminder Textofficial rulesScry — Look at the top N cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom of your library and the rest on top in any order.
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Comments & Rulings · 7
- Wizards of the Coast2020-11-10 · official rulingIf you don't have a commander, Path of Ancestry's ability produces no mana.
- Wizards of the Coast2020-11-10 · official rulingIf you cast your commander with mana from Path of Ancestry, and your commander hasn't somehow lost all of its creature types while on the stack, you'll scry 1.
- Wizards of the Coast2020-11-10 · official rulingIf Path of Ancestry's last ability produces two mana (most likely due to Mana Reflection), spending those two mana to cast creature spells that share a creature type with your commander will cause two abilities to trigger. Each of those abilities will cause you to scry 1. You won't scry 2. This is true whether you spend the mana on one creature spell or two.
- Wizards of the Coast2020-11-10 · official rulingIf your commander has no creature types, it can't share a creature type with any spell that you cast.
- Wizards of the Coast2020-11-10 · official rulingIf your commander is a card that has no colors in its color identity, Path of Ancestry's ability produces no mana. It doesn't produce .
- Wizards of the Coast2023-07-28 · official rulingIf you have two commanders, the last ability adds one mana of any color in their combined color identities. When you spend that mana on a creature spell that shares a creature type with either of your commanders, you'll scry 1.
- Wizards of the Coast2023-07-28 · official rulingYour commander's creature types are checked immediately after you cast a creature spell spending mana from Path of Ancestry's last ability. They aren't set before the game begins, and they may not be the same types your commander had when you activated that ability.