Card
Abuelo, Ancestral Echo
Mana cost {1}{W}{U}
Legendary Creature — Spirit 2/2
Flying, ward {2} {1}{W}{U}: Exile another target creature or artifact you control. Return it to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 14 known combos. 6 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Rare · LCI · #219
- Cheapest printing
- €0.22
- EDHREC salt
- 0.20
- Color identity
- Blue, White
- Keywords
- Flying, Ward
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B2 Core — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B3 Upgraded — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- No Game Changer, mass land denial, extra turn, tutor or two-card combo
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
14 known combos.
- Wormfang Manta + Abuelo, Ancestral Echo + Doorkeeper Thrull
Produces: Infinite turns, Lock
View on Commander Spellbook - Wormfang Manta + Torpor Orb + Abuelo, Ancestral Echo
Produces: Infinite turns, Lock
View on Commander Spellbook - Timestream Navigator + Recruiter of the Guard + Abuelo, Ancestral Echo
Produces: Infinite turns, Lock
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2023-11-10 · Wizards of the Coast
If another effect causes one of the returned permanents to become a creature and sets its base power and toughness as it does so, that creature will have that power and toughness; it won't be 1/1. Notably, crewing a Vehicle does not set its power and toughness, so a Vehicle will remain a 1/1 if you crew it. - 2023-11-10 · Wizards of the Coast
An Equipment that's also a creature can't be attached to anything. You can activate its equip ability, but it won't become attached. - 2023-11-10 · Wizards of the Coast
If a double-faced card is exiled this way, it will return with its front face up, no matter which face was up when it left the battlefield. - 2023-11-10 · Wizards of the Coast
The exiled card will return to the battlefield at the beginning of the next end step even if Abuelo, Ancestral Echo is no longer on the battlefield at that time. - 2023-11-10 · Wizards of the Coast
If a token is exiled this way, it ceases to exist and won't return to the battlefield. - 2023-11-10 · Wizards of the Coast
An artifact creature card or enchantment creature card returned this way will have base power and toughness 1/1.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast