Forgotten Lore

Sorcery

Target opponent chooses a card in your graveyard. You may pay {G} . If you do, repeat this process except that opponent can't choose a card already chosen for Forgotten Lore. Then put the last chosen card into your hand.

In ashes are the gems of history.

Set: Ice Age (ICE #237)
Rarity: Uncommon
Mana value: 1
Released: 1995-06-03
Artist: Harold McNeill
EDHREC rank: #28,010
Colour identity
Finishes: Nonfoil
Served from: Local database

Commander bracket

1 +

Fits any bracket

No Game Changer, land denial, extra turns or two-card combos.

Derived from card traits, not a ruling — bracket rules turn on how a deck intends to use a card. Bracket rules

EDHREC

Salt Score 0.07

How much players resent seeing this card. The scale tops out around 3.1.

Recursion

Combos

Not part of any combo on Commander Spellbook.

Format legality

Standard Not legal

Pioneer Not legal

Modern Not legal

Legacy Legal

Vintage Legal

Pauper Not legal

Commander Legal

Oathbreaker Legal

Duel Commander Legal

Brawl Not legal

Standard Brawl Not legal

Historic Not legal

Timeless Not legal

Alchemy Not legal

Penny Legal

Premodern Legal

PreDH Legal

Pauper EDH Not legal

Old School Not legal

Future Not legal

Gladiator Not legal

All printings Scryfall ↗Gatherer ↗Edhrec ↗

Rulings

2008-10-01
The spell has no knowledge of cards chosen for other spells named Forgotten Lore.
2008-10-01
You target an opponent when you cast Forgotten Lore. The opponent chooses a card in your graveyard as Forgotten Lore resolves. After that choice is made, you’re given the option to pay . If you do, the targeted opponent must choose a different card, if there is one. (If there isn’t one, this part is skipped.) Then you’re given the option to pay again. As long as you keep paying , the process continues. As soon as you decline to pay , the last card that was chosen by the opponent is put into your hand.