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.
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- Set
- The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI #297)
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana value
- 3
- Released
- 2023-11-17
- Artist
- Cabrol
- 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.