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
- #5,736
- 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 9
All 9 combos.
Commander recommendations
Top synergy 50
Played far more in this commander's decks than elsewhere.
- Soulherder
- Aether Channeler
- Peregrine Drake
- Panharmonicon
- Mulldrifter
- Solemn Simulacrum
- Ghostly Flicker
- Cloudblazer
- Ephemerate
- Archaeomancer
- Reflector Mage
- Yorion, Sky Nomad
- Spirited Companion
- Dour Port-Mage
- Sun Titan
- Teleportation Circle
- Circuit Mender
- Stonehorn Dignitary
- Charming Prince
- Wall of Omens
- Brago, King Eternal
- Cloudshift
- Flickerwisp
- Loran of the Third Path
- Conjurer's Closet
- Cryogen Relic
- Meteor Golem
- Eerie Interlude
- Momentary Blink
- Agent of Treachery
- Venser, Shaper Savant
- Restoration Angel
- Another Round
- Coveted Jewel
- Elite Guardmage
- Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines
- Starfield Vocalist
- Virtue of Knowledge
- Karmic Guide
- Inspiring Overseer
- Kor Cartographer
- Thassa, Deep-Dwelling
- Genku, Future Shaper
- Scampering Surveyor
- Skyclave Apparition
- Training Grounds
- Angel of the Ruins
- Felidar Guardian
- Essence Flux
- Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward
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
- Peregrine Drake
- Swords to Plowshares
- Panharmonicon
- Ephemerate
- Mulldrifter
- Azorius Signet
- Counterspell
- Ghostly Flicker
- Archaeomancer
- Path to Exile
- Cloudblazer
- Reliquary Tower
- Port Town
- Azorius Chancery
- Reflector Mage
- Dour Port-Mage
- Talisman of Progress
- Sun Titan
- Spirited Companion
- Loran of the Third Path
- Hallowed Fountain
- Temple of Enlightenment
- Cloudshift
- Teleportation Circle
- Yorion, Sky Nomad
- Adarkar Wastes
- Charming Prince
- Wall of Omens
- Thought Vessel
- Deserted Beach
- Brago, King Eternal
- Momentary Blink
- Conjurer's Closet
- Flickerwisp
- Eerie Interlude
- Circuit Mender
- Stonehorn Dignitary
- Cryogen Relic
- Restoration Angel
- Supreme Verdict
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.