Card
Ancestral Statue
Mana cost {4}
When this creature enters, return a nonland permanent you control to its owner's hand.
Part of 144 known combos, 12 of them two-card. 2 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Common · DTK · #234
- Cheapest printing
- €0.12
- EDHREC salt
- 0.31
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — Not in the same deck as its two-card combo partners: Animar, Soul of Elements, Intruder Alarm, Temur Battlecrier, Rakdos, Lord of Riots, Sami, Wildcat Captain, Mycosynth Golem, Hamza, Guardian of Arashin, Heliod, the Radiant Dawn // Heliod, the Warped Eclipse, Ezzaroot Channeler, Tezzeret, Master of the Bridge, Henzie "Toolbox" Torre, Mana Echoes
- B2 Core — Not in the same deck as its two-card combo partners: Animar, Soul of Elements, Intruder Alarm, Temur Battlecrier, Rakdos, Lord of Riots, Sami, Wildcat Captain, Mycosynth Golem, Hamza, Guardian of Arashin, Heliod, the Radiant Dawn // Heliod, the Warped Eclipse, Ezzaroot Channeler, Tezzeret, Master of the Bridge, Henzie "Toolbox" Torre, Mana Echoes
- B3 Upgraded — Not in the same deck as its early two-card combo partners: Animar, Soul of Elements, Intruder Alarm, Mana Echoes
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- Two-card combo with Animar, Soul of Elements, Intruder Alarm, Temur Battlecrier, Rakdos, Lord of Riots, Sami, Wildcat Captain, Mycosynth Golem, Hamza, Guardian of Arashin, Heliod, the Radiant Dawn // Heliod, the Warped Eclipse, Ezzaroot Channeler, Tezzeret, Master of the Bridge, Henzie "Toolbox" Torre, Mana Echoes (early with Animar, Soul of Elements, Intruder Alarm, Mana Echoes)
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
144 known combos, 12 of them two-card.
- Ancestral Statue + Animar, Soul of Elements
Produces: Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB
View on Commander Spellbook - Intruder Alarm + Ancestral Statue
Produces: Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB, Infinite mana creatures you control can produce
View on Commander Spellbook - Ancestral Statue + Temur Battlecrier
Produces: Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite storm count
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2015-02-25 · Wizards of the Coast
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. - 2015-02-25 · Wizards of the Coast
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.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast