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Emeritus of Ideation // Ancestral Recall 
Oracle Text
This creature enters prepared.
Whenever this creature attacks, you may exile eight cards from your graveyard. If you do, this creature becomes prepared.
Target player draws three cards.Format Legality
Competitive Play by Format
Top 8 decklists that played Emeritus of Ideation // Ancestral Recall, by format.
| Format | Decks 30d | Avg 30d | Decks 12mo | Avg 12mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | 87 | 1.8 | 180 | 1.9 |
| Pioneer | 21 | 2.1 | 42 | 1.6 |
| Modern | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1.2 |
| Duel Commander | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Details
- Set
- Secrets of Strixhaven
- Rarity
- Mythic Rare
- Mana value
- 0
Recent Top-8 Decks Playing Emeritus of Ideation // Ancestral Recall
Final: 7 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (17)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 3 Consign to Memory
$3.39
28.42 tix
- 1 Damping Sphere
$1.08
1.44 tix
- 1 Fire Magic
$0.94
3.88 tix - 2 Force of Despair
$6.07
3.75 tix - 1 Harbinger of the Seas
$1.38
1.29 tix
- 1 Meltdown
$0.24
0.59 tix - 1 Meltdown$0.24 0.59 tix
- 2 Mystical Dispute
$0.43
0.02 tix
- 1 Pyroclasm
$0.20
0.02 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.34
5.32 tix - 1 Vexing Bauble
$2.10
5.27 tix
Final: 5 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Sorceries (7)
Instants (23)
- 1 Thunder Magic$0.19 0.03 tix
- 2 Sear
$0.32
0.02 tix
- 4 Consult the Star Charts
$3.48
4.61 tix
- 1 Essence Scatter
$0.06
0.03 tix
- 2 Broadside Barrage
$0.36
0.03 tix
- 2 Swallowed by Leviathan
$0.20
0.03 tix
- 4 Jeskai Revelation
$2.61
0.79 tix - 2 Flashback
$4.40
2.45 tix
- 3 Thunder Magic
$0.19
0.03 tix
- 1 Into the Flood Maw
$2.38
9.73 tix
- 1 Traumatic Critique
$0.57
0.37 tix
Lands (26)
- 2 Cori Mountain Monastery$0.39 0.35 tix
- 4 Great Hall of the Biblioplex$0.38 0.39 tix
- 1 Hallowed Fountain$7.82 0.06 tix
- 1 Hallowed Fountain$7.82 0.06 tix
- 2 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Mistrise Village$8.19 0.54 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 2 Petrified Hamlet$0.82 0.75 tix
- 4 Riverpyre Verge$20.75 0.70 tix
- 1 Steam Vents$12.07 0.20 tix
- 2 Steam Vents$12.07 0.20 tix
- 1 Steam Vents$12.07 0.20 tix
- 1 Stormcarved Coast$1.87 0.02 tix
- 1 Sundown Pass$1.62 0.02 tix
- 1 Sundown Pass$1.62 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Sorceries (8)
Instants (21)
Lands (27)
- 1 Cori Mountain Monastery$0.39 0.35 tix
- 1 Elegant Parlor$8.16 4.91 tix
- 2 Gloomlake Verge$9.78 0.33 tix
- 4 Great Hall of the Biblioplex$0.38 0.39 tix
- 3 Hallowed Fountain$7.82 0.06 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Meticulous Archive$9.35 3.99 tix
- 2 Mistrise Village$8.19 0.54 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 3 Sacred Foundry$9.44 0.16 tix
- 3 Shattered Sanctum$1.12 0.02 tix
- 3 Steam Vents$12.07 0.20 tix
- 1 Stormcarved Coast$1.87 0.02 tix
- 1 Sundown Pass$1.62 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (17)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (9)
Sorceries (11)
- 1 Flow State$2.11 6.74 tix
- 1 Sundering Eruption
$0.89
0.03 tix
- 1 Fiery Confluence
$0.36
3.70 tix
- 1 Stock Up
$1.29
0.40 tix
- 1 Lórien Revealed
$4.89
4.65 tix
- 1 Reckless Charge
$0.13
0.03 tix
- 1 Wild Ride
$0.28
0.03 tix
- 1 Ponder
$1.73
0.01 tix
- 1 Preordain
$0.45
0.01 tix
- 1 Expressive Iteration
$0.32
0.02 tix
- 1 Gitaxian Probe
$3.95
0.01 tix
Instants (41)
- 1 Force of Negation$48.99 18.36 tix
- 1 Ghostfire Slice$0.34 0.03 tix
- 1 Pyrokinesis$1.59 7.31 tix
- 1 Sink into Stupor— —
- 1 Abrade
$0.14
0.03 tix
- 1 Change the Equation
$0.23
0.03 tix
- 1 Consult the Star Charts
$3.48
4.61 tix
- 1 Daze
$0.90
0.02 tix
- 1 Glorious Gale
$0.19
0.03 tix
- 1 Lose Focus
$0.24
0.03 tix
- 1 Mana Leak
$0.18
0.03 tix
- 1 Memory Lapse
$0.38
0.04 tix
- 1 Reject
$0.21
0.03 tix
- 1 Remand
$0.30
0.03 tix
- 1 Tale's End
$1.94
0.02 tix
- 1 Flame of Anor
$4.53
0.04 tix
- 1 Cryptic Command
$3.13
0.06 tix
- 1 Brainsurge
$0.33
0.03 tix
- 1 Exclude
$0.16
0.03 tix
- 1 Intuition
$358.15
19.12 tix
- 1 Memory Deluge
$0.31
0.17 tix
- 1 Mystic Confluence
$0.43
0.40 tix
- 1 Fiery Impulse
$0.17
0.03 tix
- 1 Flashback
$4.40
2.45 tix
- 1 Galvanic Discharge
$0.29
0.03 tix
- 1 Lightning Bolt
$0.79
0.02 tix
- 1 Monstrous Rage
$0.26
0.03 tix
- 1 Unholy Heat
$0.28
0.01 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.89 tix
- 1 Force Spike
$0.99
0.04 tix
- 1 Peek
$0.45
0.03 tix
- 1 Spell Pierce
$0.22
0.01 tix
- 1 Spell Snare
$0.29
0.21 tix
- 1 Stern Scolding
$0.28
0.30 tix
- 1 Stifle
$7.00
16.70 tix
- 1 Wash Away
$0.39
0.03 tix
- 1 Prismari Charm
$0.35
0.02 tix
- 1 Counterspell
$1.29
0.02 tix
- 1 Archmage's Charm
$1.08
0.15 tix
- 1 Mental Misstep
$8.17
0.02 tix
- 1 Logic Knot
$0.18
0.03 tix
Lands (36)
- 1 Agna Qel'a$0.95 0.07 tix
- 1 Arena of Glory$7.08 0.73 tix
- 1 Arid Mesa$31.07 3.92 tix
- 1 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.74 tix
- 1 Command Tower$0.27 0.01 tix
- 1 Cori Mountain Monastery$0.39 0.35 tix
- 1 Fiery Islet$4.29 7.15 tix
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.37 2.30 tix
- 3 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 2 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Mistrise Village$8.19 0.54 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.45 1.73 tix
- 2 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Multiversal Passage$7.12 4.01 tix
- 1 Mystic Sanctuary$1.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Opal Palace$0.24 0.02 tix
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City$27.31 2.08 tix
- 1 Polluted Delta$18.91 2.50 tix
- 1 Prismatic Vista$25.94 3.18 tix
- 1 Riverglide Pathway$4.79 0.18 tix
- 1 Riverpyre Verge$20.75 0.70 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$39.34 4.20 tix
- 1 Shivan Reef$0.28 0.02 tix
- 1 Spirebluff Canal$5.22 0.58 tix
- 1 Steam Vents$12.07 0.20 tix
- 1 Stormcarved Coast$1.87 0.02 tix
- 1 Sulfur Falls$0.28 0.02 tix
- 1 Swarmyard$3.65 0.02 tix
- 1 Thundering Falls$14.51 6.59 tix
- 1 Volcanic Island$305.76 15.34 tix
- 1 Wooded Foothills$16.81 2.67 tix
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (20)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (8)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (25)
Sideboard
- 1 Agatha's Soul Cauldron
$35.63
6.06 tix
- 1 Dauntless Scrapbot
$0.30
0.03 tix
- 1 Deadly Cover-Up
$0.36
0.02 tix
- 1 Decorum Dissertation
$6.59
1.02 tix
- 4 Duress
$0.08
0.01 tix
- 2 Flashfreeze
$0.09
0.02 tix
- 1 Negate
$0.12
0.03 tix
- 2 Qarsi Revenant
$1.49
0.02 tix
- 1 Quantum Riddler
$30.55
32.08 tix
- 1 Strategic Betrayal
$0.49
0.02 tix
Final: 1 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (23)
Sorceries (4)
Lands (25)
- 1 Breeding Pool$9.69 0.02 tix
- 1 Breeding Pool$9.69 0.02 tix
- 2 Cavern of Souls$51.31 0.61 tix
- 1 Cavern of Souls$51.31 0.61 tix
- 1 Cavern of Souls$51.31 0.61 tix
- 1 Cori Mountain Monastery$0.39 0.35 tix
- 2 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Pit of Offerings$0.35 0.04 tix
- 4 Secluded Courtyard$0.29 0.03 tix
- 2 Spirebluff Canal$5.22 0.58 tix
- 4 Starting Town$9.56 7.61 tix
- 2 Steam Vents$12.07 0.20 tix
- 1 Steam Vents$12.07 0.20 tix
- 1 Steam Vents$12.07 0.20 tix
- 1 Thundering Falls$14.51 6.59 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Beza, the Bounding Spring
$4.38
1.96 tix
- 2 Broadside Barrage
$0.36
0.03 tix
- 2 Disdainful Stroke
$0.08
0.03 tix
- 1 Emeritus of Ideation
$6.54
10.08 tix
- 1 Ill-Timed Explosion
$0.33
0.02 tix
- 1 Into the Flood Maw
$2.38
9.73 tix
- 1 Pit of Offerings$0.35 0.04 tix
- 1 Sear
$0.32
0.02 tix
- 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.21
0.02 tix
- 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.21
0.02 tix
- 1 Spell Pierce$0.22 0.01 tix
- 1 Spell Pierce
$0.22
0.01 tix
- 1 Ygra, Eater of All
$9.78
0.22 tix
Final: 2 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (21)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
- 2 Annul
$0.14
0.03 tix
- 3 Ashling, Rekindled
$1.35
0.02 tix
- 1 Broadside Barrage
$0.36
0.03 tix
- 1 Cavern of Souls$51.31 0.61 tix
- 1 Colorstorm Stallion
$0.34
0.02 tix
- 1 Disdainful Stroke
$0.08
0.03 tix
- 2 Emeritus of Ideation
$6.54
10.08 tix
- 2 Flashfreeze
$0.09
0.02 tix
- 1 Ill-Timed Explosion
$0.33
0.02 tix
- 1 Stock Up
$1.29
0.40 tix
Final: 3 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (22)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (22)
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (13)
Lands (26)
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (18)
Sorceries (9)
Lands (26)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (15)
Lands (26)
Sideboard
- 1 Decorum Dissertation
$6.59
1.02 tix
- 1 Disdainful Stroke
$0.08
0.03 tix
- 1 Duress
$0.08
0.01 tix
- 2 Intimidation Tactics
$0.32
0.03 tix
- 1 Negate
$0.12
0.03 tix
- 3 Oildeep Gearhulk
$1.09
0.02 tix
- 2 Qarsi Revenant
$1.49
0.02 tix
- 2 Quantum Riddler
$30.55
32.08 tix
- 1 Shoot the Sheriff
$0.36
0.51 tix
- 1 Strategic Betrayal
$0.49
0.02 tix
Final: 7 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (17)
Sorceries (10)
Lands (26)
- 4 Blazemire Verge$8.67 0.07 tix
- 1 Blood Crypt$9.61 0.02 tix
- 2 Blood Crypt$9.61 0.02 tix
- 2 Cavern of Souls$51.31 0.61 tix
- 1 Gloomlake Verge$9.78 0.33 tix
- 3 Gloomlake Verge$9.78 0.33 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 4 Steam Vents$12.07 0.20 tix
- 1 Stormcarved Coast$1.87 0.02 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 2 Undercity Sewers$9.44 7.19 tix
- 3 Watery Grave$9.63 0.03 tix
- 1 Watery Grave$9.63 0.03 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Annul
$0.14
0.03 tix
- 1 Disdainful Stroke
$0.08
0.03 tix
- 1 Duress
$0.08
0.01 tix
- 1 Flashfreeze
$0.09
0.02 tix
- 2 Ghost Vacuum
$3.75
0.80 tix
- 1 Negate
$0.12
0.03 tix
- 1 Oildeep Gearhulk
$1.09
0.02 tix
- 1 Oildeep Gearhulk
$1.09
0.02 tix
- 1 Pyroclasm
$0.20
0.02 tix
- 1 Qarsi Revenant
$1.49
0.02 tix
- 1 Qarsi Revenant
$1.49
0.02 tix
- 1 Shoot the Sheriff
$0.36
0.51 tix
- 1 Strategic Betrayal
$0.49
0.02 tix
- 1 The End
$0.35
0.02 tix
Final: 7 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (17)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 3 Consign to Memory
$3.39
28.42 tix
- 1 Damping Sphere
$1.08
1.44 tix
- 1 Fire Magic
$0.94
3.88 tix
- 2 Force of Despair
$6.07
3.75 tix
- 1 Harbinger of the Seas
$1.38
1.29 tix
- 2 Meltdown
$0.24
0.59 tix
- 2 Mystical Dispute
$0.43
0.02 tix
- 1 Pyroclasm
$0.20
0.02 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.34
5.32 tix
- 1 Vexing Bauble
$2.10
5.27 tix
Final: 8 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (13)
Lands (26)
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (31)
- 4 Badgermole Cub
$49.78
26.15 tix
- 4 Leyline Weaver
$0.21
0.03 tix - 2 Surrak, Elusive Hunter
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 3 Ouroboroid
$28.19
4.25 tix
- 1 Emeritus of Ideation
$6.54
10.08 tix
- 3 Quantum Riddler
$30.55
32.08 tix
- 1 Marang River Regent
$1.62
0.02 tix
- 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
$18.83
0.03 tix - 4 Gene Pollinator
$0.22
0.03 tix
- 4 Llanowar Elves
$0.28
0.03 tix
- 1 Keen-Eyed Curator
$1.21
0.54 tix
- 3 Mockingbird
$4.06
0.26 tix
Sorceries (3)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (23)
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Sorceries (5)
Instants (24)
Artifacts (3)
Lands (26)
- 2 Elegant Parlor$8.16 4.91 tix
- 3 Floodfarm Verge$8.83 0.19 tix
- 4 Great Hall of the Biblioplex$0.38 0.39 tix
- 2 Hallowed Fountain$7.82 0.06 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 2 Meticulous Archive$9.35 3.99 tix
- 1 Mistrise Village$8.19 0.54 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 2 Sacred Foundry$9.44 0.16 tix
- 4 Steam Vents$12.07 0.20 tix
- 2 Sunbillow Verge$10.09 0.02 tix
- 1 Sundown Pass$1.62 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Beza, the Bounding Spring
$4.38
1.96 tix
- 2 Disdainful Stroke
$0.08
0.03 tix
- 3 Emeritus of Ideation
$6.54
10.08 tix
- 1 Flashfreeze
$0.09
0.02 tix
- 1 Improvisation Capstone
$10.43
0.52 tix
- 1 Negate
$0.12
0.03 tix
- 1 Petrified Hamlet$0.82 0.75 tix
- 2 Rest in Peace
$0.61
0.19 tix
- 1 Riverchurn Monument
$2.02
0.02 tix
- 2 Torpor Orb
$3.90
0.45 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (10)
Lands (26)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (10)
Instants (16)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (22)
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (3)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (19)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (26)
- 3 Deserted Beach$4.66 0.03 tix
- 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire$5.42 0.15 tix
- 2 Field of Ruin$0.20 0.03 tix
- 4 Floodfarm Verge$8.83 0.19 tix
- 2 Fountainport$2.46 0.06 tix
- 1 Hall of Storm Giants$0.44 0.02 tix
- 4 Hallowed Fountain$7.82 0.06 tix
- 2 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 2 Meticulous Archive$9.35 3.99 tix
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City$27.31 2.08 tix
- 2 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 2 Restless Anchorage$1.01 0.02 tix
