Abuelo, Ancestral Echo
Legendary Creature — Spirit
Flying, ward 
: 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.
"Come, friends. Let us see if this world remembers us."
2 / 2
- Set
- The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI #219)
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana value
- 3
- Released
- 2023-11-17
- Artist
- Victor Adame Minguez
- EDHREC rank
- #5,953
- Colour identity
- Finishes
- Nonfoil, Foil
- Served from
- Local database
Commander bracket
Derived from card traits, not a ruling — bracket rules turn on how a deck intends to use a card. Bracket rules
EDHREC
Combos 14
All 14 combos.
Commander recommendations
Top synergy 50
Played far more in this commander's decks than elsewhere.
- Soulherder
- Aether Channeler
- Peregrine Drake
- Panharmonicon
- Mulldrifter
- Ghostly Flicker
- Solemn Simulacrum
- Ephemerate
- Cloudblazer
- Archaeomancer
- Reflector Mage
- Dour Port-Mage
- Spirited Companion
- Yorion, Sky Nomad
- Sun Titan
- Charming Prince
- Brago, King Eternal
- Circuit Mender
- Stonehorn Dignitary
- Wall of Omens
- Teleportation Circle
- Cloudshift
- Flickerwisp
- Conjurer's Closet
- Loran of the Third Path
- Cryogen Relic
- Meteor Golem
- Eerie Interlude
- Momentary Blink
- Restoration Angel
- Venser, Shaper Savant
- Agent of Treachery
- Flickering Hound
- Starfield Vocalist
- Coveted Jewel
- Another Round
- Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines
- Elite Guardmage
- Inspiring Overseer
- Skyclave Apparition
- Thassa, Deep-Dwelling
- Virtue of Knowledge
- Kor Cartographer
- Karmic Guide
- Genku, Future Shaper
- Angel of the Ruins
- Training Grounds
- Scampering Surveyor
- Felidar Guardian
- Essence Flux
Most included 50
Highest share of decks running them, distinctive or not.
- Island
- Plains
- Command Tower
- Sol Ring
- Arcane Signet
- Prairie Stream
- Soulherder
- Solemn Simulacrum
- Glacial Fortress
- Aether Channeler
- Swords to Plowshares
- Peregrine Drake
- Panharmonicon
- Ephemerate
- Azorius Signet
- Mulldrifter
- Counterspell
- Ghostly Flicker
- Archaeomancer
- Path to Exile
- Cloudblazer
- Port Town
- Dour Port-Mage
- Reliquary Tower
- Azorius Chancery
- Reflector Mage
- Talisman of Progress
- Sun Titan
- Hallowed Fountain
- Spirited Companion
- Loran of the Third Path
- Temple of Enlightenment
- Cloudshift
- Adarkar Wastes
- Charming Prince
- Teleportation Circle
- Yorion, Sky Nomad
- Wall of Omens
- Deserted Beach
- Thought Vessel
- Brago, King Eternal
- Momentary Blink
- Conjurer's Closet
- Flickerwisp
- Eerie Interlude
- Circuit Mender
- Stonehorn Dignitary
- Skycloud Expanse
- Restoration Angel
- Dovin's Veto
Format legality
Rulings
- 2023-11-10
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
An artifact creature card or enchantment creature card returned this way will have base power and toughness 1/1.
- 2023-11-10
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
If a token is exiled this way, it ceases to exist and won't return to the battlefield.
- 2023-11-10
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
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.