Ancestral Statue
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Dragons of TarkirDTK · #234
- Card type
- Artifact Creature — Golem
- Rarity
- Common
- Indicative price
- 0.29 € · ★ 6.95 € · 0.16 $ · ★ 7.77 $
- Mana value
- 4
- Power
- 3
- Toughness
- 4
- Colour
- Colourless
Card text
When this creature enters, return a nonland permanent you control to its owner's hand.
Format legality
- BrawlLegal
- CommanderLegal
- CompetitivebrawlLegal
- DuelLegal
- GladiatorLegal
- HistoricLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PauperLegal
- PaupercommanderLegal
- PioneerLegal
- TimelessLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
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Printing information
- Illustrator
- Tomasz Jedruszek
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2015-03-27
Flavour text
The mage awakened the statue in hopes of learning the lost lore of her clan, but the statue was interested only in war.
Rulings
Ancestral Statue’s ability is mandatory. If Ancestral Statue is the only nonland permanent you control when its ability resolves, you must return it to its owner’s hand.
The triggered ability doesn’t target any permanent. You choose which one to return as the ability resolves. No player can respond to this choice once the ability starts resolving.
