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Walk with the Ancestors

Sorcery4 generic manaGreen mana

Two effects for one spell, arranged so the first is guaranteed and the second is a gamble. The regrowth clause is the anchor: it pulls back up to one permanent card, so it wants a graveyard already stocked with something worth the trip, a land, a fatty, a piece that died on schedule. Then discover 4 spins the library for a nonland hit at four or less, either casting it free or tucking it into hand. That interplay is the point: green's recursion has usually asked you to pay retail for the return, buy back the creature, replay it, spend the mana again. Here the discover reimburses part of that tax, since a free cast off the top can be the ramp piece or the utility body that lets the returned card actually resolve the same turn. The wrinkle is that discover 4 rarely whiffs (it digs until it finds a legal card, unless none remains), so the risk lives entirely in what it finds rather than whether it finds, which asks a deckbuilder to weight the curve toward the low end where the free cast lands something useful. It reads as a midrange refuel: not fast, not a finisher, but a spell that replaces itself and then some, priced so the graveyard half stays a floor and the discover half stays the upside.

Walk with the Ancestors (lci)
LCI · #218common
Pricing
Normal: $0.24
Foil: $0.09
Oracle Text

Rules text

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.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
Legal
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
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