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Ancestral Recall 
Reserved ListInstant
Ancestral Recall appeared in 1,037 MTGO Challenge Top-8 decks over the past 12 months, averaging 1 copies per deck.
Oracle Text
Target player draws three cards.
Format Legality
LegacyVintageDuel Commander
Competitive Play by Format
Top 8 decklists that played Ancestral Recall, by format.
| Format | Decks 30d | Avg 30d | Decks 12mo | Avg 12mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vintage | 76 | 1 | 1037 | 1 |
Details
- Set
- 30th Anniversary Edition
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana value
- 1
- Collector #
- 344
Non-foil
Recent Top-8 Decks Playing Ancestral Recall
6
Final: 6 |
Main Deck
Creatures (7)
Sorceries (10)
Instants (21)
- 4 Force of Will
$26.25
9.52 tix - 3 Gush
$2.52
0.04 tix - 1 Dig Through Time
$0.23
0.02 tix - 1 Lightning Bolt
$0.83
0.02 tix - 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.86 tix
- 1 Ancestral Recall
$559.99
6.53 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.85 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.78 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.78 tix
- 1 Spell Pierce
$0.23
0.01 tix
- 4 Mental Misstep
$8.23
0.02 tix - 2 Swords to Plowshares
$1.19
0.04 tix
Artifacts (5)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (16)
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.56 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Library of Alexandria$1675.25 0.12 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.70 1.66 tix
- 1 Polluted Delta$19.37 2.30 tix
- 4 Scalding Tarn$38.56 3.92 tix
- 1 Strip Mine$11.09 1.68 tix
- 2 Tundra$278.32 13.07 tix
- 3 Volcanic Island$305.76 15.31 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.53 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Containment Priest
$0.29
0.10 tix - 3 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.15
0.29 tix
- 2 Ingot Chewer
$0.14
0.03 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Null Rod
$115.10
9.61 tix - 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.86 tix
- 2 Shattering Spree
$0.92
0.22 tix
- 1 Stony Silence
$0.69
0.02 tix
- 1 Swords to Plowshares
$1.19
0.04 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.53 0.02 tix
- 1 Wear/Tear
$1.30
4.72 tix
4
Final: 4 |
Main Deck
Creatures (3)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (18)
- 1 Hurkyl's Recall
$1.60
1.23 tix
- 4 Force of Will
$26.25
9.52 tix
- 3 Gush
$2.52
0.04 tix
- 1 Dig Through Time
$0.23
0.02 tix
- 1 Vampiric Tutor
$51.00
0.02 tix - 1 Ancestral Recall
$559.99
6.53 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.85 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.78 tix
- 1 Mystical Tutor
$14.99
0.20 tix
- 3 Mental Misstep
$8.23
0.02 tix
- 1 Repeal
$0.07
0.01 tix
Artifacts (9)
Enchantments (2)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (15)
Sideboard
3
Final: 3 |
Main Deck
Creatures (6)
Sorceries (10)
Instants (17)
Artifacts (10)
Enchantments (1)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (15)
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.56 tix
- 2 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Library of Alexandria$1675.25 0.12 tix
- 2 Misty Rainforest$35.70 1.66 tix
- 2 Polluted Delta$19.37 2.30 tix
- 1 Tolarian Academy$177.50 3.14 tix
- 2 Tropical Island$312.50 9.60 tix
- 2 Underground Sea$393.31 14.03 tix
- 1 Underground Sea$393.31 14.03 tix
Sideboard
5
Final: 5 |
Main Deck
Creatures (7)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (20)
- 1 Sudden Shock
$0.13
0.03 tix
- 1 Mindbreak Trap
$6.82
1.50 tix
- 4 Force of Will
$26.25
9.52 tix
- 3 Gush
$2.52
0.04 tix
- 1 Dig Through Time
$0.23
0.02 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.86 tix
- 1 Ancestral Recall
$559.99
6.53 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.85 tix
- 4 Mental Misstep
$8.23
0.02 tix
- 3 Swords to Plowshares
$1.19
0.04 tix
Artifacts (5)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (16)
Sideboard
- 3 Containment Priest
$0.29
0.10 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.78 tix
- 1 Fragmentize
$0.23
0.03 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.15
0.29 tix
- 2 Ingot Chewer
$0.14
0.03 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.86 tix
- 1 Rest in Peace
$0.61
0.23 tix
- 1 Sudden Shock
$0.13
0.03 tix
- 1 Supreme Verdict
$1.48
0.10 tix
- 1 Swords to Plowshares
$1.19
0.04 tix
- 1 Wear/Tear— —
8
Final: 8 |
Main Deck
Creatures (2)
Sorceries (14)
Instants (13)
Artifacts (18)
- 1 Black Lotus
$3000.00
51.42 tix - 2 Chrome Mox
$38.87
1.82 tix
- 1 Lion's Eye Diamond
$819.15
8.45 tix
- 1 Lotus Petal
$36.20
15.73 tix
- 1 Mana Crypt
$40.22
1.70 tix
- 1 Mox Emerald
$601.99
15.16 tix
- 1 Mox Jet
$674.99
24.72 tix
- 2 Mox Opal
$234.22
16.51 tix
- 1 Mox Pearl
$535.99
15.44 tix
- 1 Mox Ruby
$445.26
12.64 tix
- 1 Mox Sapphire
$544.49
31.29 tix
- 1 Mana Vault
$86.50
2.71 tix
- 1 Sol Ring
$1.12
0.03 tix
- 1 Voltaic Key
$1.00
0.03 tix
- 1 Time Vault
$189.00
0.88 tix
- 1 Memory Jar
$37.32
0.36 tix
Enchantments (4)
Lands (9)
Sideboard
- 2 Ancient Grudge
$0.22
0.01 tix
- 1 Balance
$1.10
0.18 tix
- 1 Empty the Warrens
$0.14
0.02 tix
- 1 Grapeshot
$0.31
0.01 tix
- 1 Hurkyl's Recall
$1.60
1.23 tix
- 2 Ravenous Trap
$0.34
0.03 tix
- 1 Regrowth
$0.51
0.02 tix - 1 Shattering Spree
$0.92
0.22 tix
- 1 Show and Tell
$5.24
4.91 tix
- 1 Tendrils of Agony
$0.25
0.02 tix
- 1 Time Walk
$498.49
5.60 tix
- 1 Tinker
$1.02
2.50 tix
- 1 Yawgmoth's Will
$44.00
1.92 tix
3
Final: 3 |
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (22)
- 1 Echoing Truth
$0.17
0.03 tix
- 1 Thirst for Knowledge
$0.10
0.01 tix
- 1 Thirst for Knowledge
$0.10
0.01 tix
- 1 Gifts Ungiven
$5.31
0.02 tix
- 1 Gifts Ungiven
$5.31
0.02 tix
- 2 Paradoxical Outcome
$0.26
0.02 tix
- 1 Force of Will
$26.25
9.52 tix
- 1 Force of Will
$26.25
9.52 tix
- 1 Force of Will
$26.25
9.52 tix
- 1 Force of Will
$26.25
9.52 tix
- 1 Gush
$2.52
0.04 tix
- 1 Dig Through Time
$0.23
0.02 tix
- 1 Vampiric Tutor
$51.00
0.02 tix
- 1 Ancestral Recall
$559.99
6.53 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.85 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.78 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.78 tix
- 1 Mana Drain
$50.82
0.40 tix
- 1 Mana Drain
$50.82
0.40 tix
- 2 Mental Misstep
$8.23
0.02 tix
Artifacts (14)
- 1 Black Lotus
$3000.00
51.42 tix
- 1 Mana Crypt
$40.22
1.70 tix
- 1 Mox Emerald
$601.99
15.16 tix
- 1 Mox Jet
$674.99
24.72 tix
- 1 Mox Opal
$234.22
16.51 tix
- 1 Mox Opal
$234.22
16.51 tix
- 1 Mox Pearl
$535.99
15.44 tix
- 1 Mox Ruby
$445.26
12.64 tix
- 1 Mox Sapphire
$544.49
31.29 tix
- 1 Mana Vault
$86.50
2.71 tix
- 1 Sensei's Divining Top
$39.55
1.36 tix
- 1 Sol Ring
$1.12
0.03 tix
- 1 Voltaic Key
$1.00
0.03 tix
- 1 Time Vault
$189.00
0.88 tix
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (15)
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.56 tix
- 2 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Library of Alexandria$1675.25 0.12 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.70 1.66 tix
- 1 Polluted Delta$19.37 2.30 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$38.56 3.92 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Island$1.03 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Island$1.03 0.01 tix
- 1 Strip Mine$11.09 1.68 tix
- 1 Tolarian Academy$177.50 3.14 tix
- 1 Underground Sea$393.31 14.03 tix
- 2 Underground Sea$393.31 14.03 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.53 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.74 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.74 tix
- 1 Hurkyl's Recall
$1.60
1.23 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.41 2.00 tix
- 3 Leyline of the Void
$0.42
0.10 tix
- 1 Mindbreak Trap
$6.82
1.50 tix
- 1 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.87
0.03 tix
- 2 Notion Thief
$1.46
0.02 tix
- 2 Razormane Masticore
$0.21
0.02 tix
- 1 Tormod's Crypt
$0.39
0.03 tix
- 1 Toxic Deluge
$3.31
0.06 tix
1
Final: 1 |
Main Deck
Creatures (7)
Sorceries (12)
Instants (18)
Artifacts (5)
Planeswalkers (3)
Lands (15)
Sideboard
2
Final: 2 |
Main Deck
Creatures (6)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (20)
- 1 Sudden Shock
$0.13
0.03 tix
- 3 Force of Will
$26.25
9.52 tix
- 1 Force of Will
$26.25
9.52 tix
- 3 Gush
$2.52
0.04 tix
- 1 Dig Through Time
$0.23
0.02 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.86 tix
- 1 Ancestral Recall
$559.99
6.53 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.85 tix
- 4 Mental Misstep
$8.23
0.02 tix
- 3 Swords to Plowshares
$1.19
0.04 tix
Artifacts (4)
Lands (16)
Sideboard
- 2 Containment Priest
$0.29
0.10 tix
- 1 Disenchant
$0.10
0.03 tix
- 2 Energy Flux
$0.27
0.09 tix
- 1 Fragmentize
$0.23
0.03 tix
- 2 Kataki, War's Wage
$0.86
0.02 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.86 tix
- 1 Rest in Peace
$0.61
0.23 tix
- 1 Stony Silence
$0.69
0.02 tix
- 1 Stony Silence
$0.69
0.02 tix
- 1 Sudden Shock
$0.13
0.03 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.53 0.02 tix
7
Final: 7 |
Main Deck
Creatures (2)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (15)
Artifacts (6)
Enchantments (5)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 2 Ancient Grudge
$0.22
0.01 tix
- 2 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.78 tix
- 1 Huntmaster of the Fells
$0.25
0.02 tix
- 1 Nature's Claim
$0.38
0.01 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.86 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.86 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Mountain$0.50 0.01 tix
- 2 Thespian's Stage$0.31 0.02 tix
- 3 Tormod's Crypt
$0.39
0.03 tix
- 1 Tormod's Crypt
$0.39
0.03 tix
6
Final: 6 |
Main Deck
Creatures (3)
Sorceries (2)
Instants (16)
Artifacts (5)
Enchantments (9)
Lands (21)
- 1 Creeping Tar Pit$0.33 0.02 tix
- 4 Forbidden Orchard$9.43 0.02 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Library of Alexandria$1675.25 0.12 tix
- 3 Mishra's Factory$0.15 0.03 tix
- 4 Misty Rainforest$35.70 1.66 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$38.56 3.92 tix
- 1 Treetop Village$0.33 0.03 tix
- 1 Tropical Island$312.50 9.60 tix
- 3 Underground Sea$393.31 14.03 tix
- 1 Volcanic Island$305.76 15.31 tix
Sideboard
2
Final: 2 |
Main Deck
Creatures (2)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (15)
Artifacts (6)
Enchantments (5)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 2 Ancient Grudge
$0.22
0.01 tix
- 2 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.78 tix
- 1 Huntmaster of the Fells
$0.25
0.02 tix
- 1 Nature's Claim
$0.38
0.01 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.86 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.86 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Mountain$0.50 0.01 tix
- 2 Thespian's Stage$0.31 0.02 tix
- 3 Tormod's Crypt
$0.39
0.03 tix
- 1 Tormod's Crypt
$0.39
0.03 tix
7
Final: 7 |
Main Deck
Creatures (7)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (22)
Artifacts (3)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (16)
Sideboard
- 1 Arcane Laboratory
$0.56
0.04 tix
- 1 Balance
$1.10
0.18 tix
- 1 Containment Priest
$0.29
0.10 tix
- 3 Fragmentize
$0.23
0.03 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.15
0.29 tix
- 1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
$17.33
0.67 tix
- 1 Mindbreak Trap
$6.82
1.50 tix
- 1 Path to Exile
$1.09
0.02 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Rest in Peace
$0.61
0.23 tix
- 2 Stony Silence
$0.69
0.02 tix
- 1 Supreme Verdict
$1.48
0.10 tix
6
Final: 6 |
Main Deck
Creatures (10)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (19)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (15)
Sideboard
4
Final: 4 |
Main Deck
Sorceries (11)
Instants (13)
Artifacts (23)
- 1 Black Lotus
$3000.00
51.42 tix
- 1 Lotus Petal
$36.20
15.73 tix
- 1 Mana Crypt
$40.22
1.70 tix
- 1 Mox Emerald
$601.99
15.16 tix
- 1 Mox Jet
$674.99
24.72 tix
- 3 Mox Opal
$234.22
16.51 tix
- 1 Mox Pearl
$535.99
15.44 tix
- 1 Mox Ruby
$445.26
12.64 tix
- 1 Mox Sapphire
$544.49
31.29 tix
- 1 Mana Vault
$86.50
2.71 tix
- 2 Sensei's Divining Top
$39.55
1.36 tix
- 1 Sol Ring
$1.12
0.03 tix
- 2 Voltaic Key
$1.00
0.03 tix
- 2 Defense Grid
$6.45
0.02 tix
- 1 Grim Monolith
$29.99
9.48 tix
- 1 Grim Monolith
$29.99
9.48 tix
- 1 Time Vault
$189.00
0.88 tix
- 1 Memory Jar
$37.32
0.36 tix
Enchantments (1)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (9)
Sideboard
8
Final: 8 |
Main Deck
Creatures (9)
Sorceries (13)
Instants (16)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (1)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (16)
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.56 tix
- 1 Library of Alexandria$1675.25 0.12 tix
- 2 Misty Rainforest$35.70 1.66 tix
- 2 Polluted Delta$19.37 2.30 tix
- 1 Polluted Delta$19.37 2.30 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Island$1.03 0.01 tix
- 1 Strip Mine$11.09 1.68 tix
- 1 Tropical Island$312.50 9.60 tix
- 2 Tundra$278.32 13.07 tix
- 2 Underground Sea$393.31 14.03 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.53 0.02 tix
Sideboard
1
Final: 1 |
Main Deck
Creatures (2)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (15)
Artifacts (6)
Enchantments (5)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 2 Ancient Grudge
$0.22
0.01 tix
- 2 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.78 tix
- 1 Huntmaster of the Fells
$0.25
0.02 tix
- 1 Nature's Claim
$0.38
0.01 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.86 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.86 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Mountain$0.50 0.01 tix
- 2 Thespian's Stage$0.31 0.02 tix
- 3 Tormod's Crypt
$0.39
0.03 tix
- 1 Tormod's Crypt
$0.39
0.03 tix
2
Final: 2 |
Main Deck
Creatures (3)
Sorceries (10)
Instants (18)
Artifacts (8)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (16)
Sideboard
- 2 Ancient Grudge
$0.22
0.01 tix
- 1 Baneslayer Angel
$2.77
0.02 tix
- 3 Containment Priest
$0.29
0.10 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.41 2.00 tix
- 1 Rest in Peace
$0.61
0.23 tix
- 2 Steel Sabotage
$0.19
0.03 tix
- 1 Sudden Shock
$0.13
0.03 tix
- 1 Supreme Verdict
$1.48
0.10 tix
- 1 Swords to Plowshares
$1.19
0.04 tix
- 2 Tormod's Crypt
$0.39
0.03 tix
5
Final: 5 |
Main Deck
Creatures (7)
Sorceries (10)
Instants (21)
Artifacts (4)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (16)
Sideboard
7
Final: 7 |
Main Deck
Creatures (3)
Sorceries (17)
- 1 Demonic Tutor
$58.44
5.94 tix
- 2 Regrowth
$0.51
0.02 tix
- 1 Merchant Scroll
$4.56
2.60 tix
- 1 Time Walk
$498.49
5.60 tix
- 1 Yawgmoth's Will
$44.00
1.92 tix
- 1 Tendrils of Agony
$0.25
0.02 tix
- 1 Treasure Cruise
$0.25
0.01 tix - 3 Cabal Therapy
$6.66
11.99 tix
- 1 Ponder
$1.75
0.01 tix
- 2 Preordain
$0.47
0.01 tix
- 3 Gitaxian Probe
$3.93
0.01 tix
Instants (18)
- 1 Dismember
$3.09
3.85 tix - 1 Ancient Grudge
$0.22
0.01 tix
- 4 Force of Will
$26.25
9.52 tix
- 2 Gush
$2.52
0.04 tix
- 1 Gush
$2.52
0.04 tix
- 1 Gush
$2.52
0.04 tix
- 1 Dig Through Time
$0.23
0.02 tix
- 1 Vampiric Tutor
$51.00
0.02 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.86 tix
- 1 Ancestral Recall
$559.99
6.53 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.85 tix
- 3 Mental Misstep
$8.23
0.02 tix
Artifacts (5)
Enchantments (1)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (14)
Sideboard
- 1 Ancient Grudge
$0.22
0.01 tix
- 1 Dread of Night
$0.39
0.60 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.78 tix
- 1 Ingot Chewer
$0.14
0.03 tix
- 2 Lightning Bolt
$0.83
0.02 tix
- 1 Murderous Cut
$0.31
0.03 tix
- 1 Nature's Claim
$0.38
0.01 tix
- 3 Ravenous Trap
$0.34
0.03 tix
- 1 Sulfur Elemental
$0.10
0.03 tix
- 1 Tormod's Crypt
$0.39
0.03 tix
- 2 Yixlid Jailer
$0.09
0.04 tix
6
Final: 6 |
Main Deck
Creatures (6)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (20)
- 1 Sudden Shock
$0.13
0.03 tix
- 3 Force of Will
$26.25
9.52 tix
- 1 Force of Will
$26.25
9.52 tix
- 3 Gush
$2.52
0.04 tix
- 1 Dig Through Time
$0.23
0.02 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.86 tix
- 1 Ancestral Recall
$559.99
6.53 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.85 tix
- 4 Mental Misstep
$8.23
0.02 tix
- 3 Swords to Plowshares
$1.19
0.04 tix
Artifacts (4)
Lands (16)
Sideboard
- 1 Balance
$1.10
0.18 tix
- 2 Containment Priest
$0.29
0.10 tix
- 1 Disenchant
$0.10
0.03 tix
- 1 Fragmentize
$0.23
0.03 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.15
0.29 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.15
0.29 tix
- 1 Monastery Mentor
$0.41
0.06 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.86 tix
- 1 Rest in Peace
$0.61
0.23 tix
- 1 Stony Silence
$0.69
0.02 tix
- 1 Stony Silence
$0.69
0.02 tix
- 1 Sudden Shock
$0.13
0.03 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.53 0.02 tix