Art by Victor Adame Minguez
The Ancient One
Legendary Creature — Spirit God
Descend 8 — The Ancient One can't attack or block unless there are eight or more permanent cards in your graveyard. {2}{U}{B}: Draw a card, then discard a card. When you discard a card this way, target player mills cards equal to its mana value.
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Most Played With The Ancient One (194)
Sol Ring
80% of decks · $1.38
Arcane Signet
77% of decks · $0.49
Dimir Signet
54% of decks · $0.30
Talisman of Dominance
51% of decks · $0.44
Animate Dead
44% of decks · $7.00
Likeness Looter
44% of decks · $2.86
Dread Return
44% of decks · $0.60
Matzalantli, the Great Door
43% of decks
Frantic Search
41% of decks · $2.13
Breach the Multiverse
40% of decks · $11.31
Millikin
38% of decks · $0.34
Drown in the Loch
38% of decks · $1.64
Windfall
37% of decks · $6.02
Rise of the Dark Realms
36% of decks · $6.49
The Everflowing Well
35% of decks
Obsessive Stitcher
35% of decks · $0.35
Deranged Assistant
33% of decks · $0.28
Laboratory Maniac
32% of decks · $2.25
Sheoldred, Whispering One
32% of decks · $20.76
Dark Ritual
32% of decks · $7.19
Dreadhound
31% of decks · $0.28
Sepulchral Primordial
30% of decks · $0.40
Ripples of Undeath
30% of decks · $8.82
Mind Stone
29% of decks
Feed the Swarm
29% of decks · $0.24
Vohar, Vodalian Desecrator
28% of decks · $0.31
Fleet Swallower
28% of decks · $1.23
Shadow of Mortality
28% of decks · $0.76
Terisian Mindbreaker
27% of decks · $1.10
Starving Revenant
27% of decks · $0.32
Living Death
27% of decks · $6.62
Stitcher's Supplier
26% of decks · $0.37
Extract from Darkness
26% of decks · $0.31
Kiora, the Rising Tide
25% of decks · $0.39
Grave Researcher
25% of decks
The Mindskinner
25% of decks · $3.43
Fellwar Stone
25% of decks
Mesmeric Orb
25% of decks · $18.03
Ruin Crab
24% of decks · $1.32
Negate
24% of decks · $0.24
An Offer You Can't Refuse
23% of decks · $3.16
Persist
23% of decks · $0.74
Archon of Cruelty
23% of decks · $1.47
Entomb
23% of decks · $18.29
Lightning Greaves
23% of decks · $4.00
Mindcrank
22% of decks · $13.22
Arcane Denial
22% of decks · $2.03
Hullbreaker Horror
22% of decks · $6.03
Treasure Cruise
22% of decks · $0.34
Fraying Sanity
21% of decks · $0.86
Dig Through Time
21% of decks · $0.30
Maddening Cacophony
21% of decks · $7.25
Phenax, God of Deception
21% of decks · $11.41
Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
21% of decks · $13.10
Gyruda, Doom of Depths
20% of decks · $0.65
Toxic Deluge
20% of decks · $5.17
Glimpse the Unthinkable
20% of decks · $3.54
The Water Crystal
20% of decks · $4.45
Hedron Crab
19% of decks · $3.48
Songs of the Damned
19% of decks · $2.91
Thought Vessel
19% of decks
Buried Alive
19% of decks · $3.61
Nezahal, Primal Tide
19% of decks · $9.16
Jace, Wielder of Mysteries
19% of decks · $11.04
Massacre Wurm
19% of decks · $2.43
Valgavoth, Terror Eater
18% of decks · $18.23
Cut Your Losses
18% of decks · $1.64
Withering Torment
18% of decks · $1.58
Bruvac the Grandiloquent
17% of decks · $46.09
Bringer of the Last Gift
17% of decks · $0.75
Oversold Cemetery
17% of decks · $2.60
Swiftfoot Boots
17% of decks
Necromancy
17% of decks · $19.72
Rhystic Study
16% of decks · $69.59
Deadly Rollick
16% of decks · $28.68
Demonic Tutor
16% of decks · $69.17
Thought Scour
16% of decks · $0.61
Crucible of Worlds
16% of decks · $33.00
Cyclonic Rift
15% of decks · $39.16
Fact or Fiction
15% of decks · $0.25
Shadowgrange Archfiend
15% of decks · $6.49
Overwhelming Remorse
15% of decks · $0.24
Riverchurn Monument
15% of decks · $1.53
Virtue of Persistence
15% of decks
Wayfarer's Bauble
15% of decks · $5.61
Bitter Triumph
15% of decks · $0.31
Fractured Sanity
15% of decks · $3.15
Doomed Necromancer
15% of decks · $0.39
Solemn Simulacrum
14% of decks · $0.34
Court of Cunning
14% of decks · $4.14
Psychic Corrosion
14% of decks · $4.70
Rona, Herald of Invasion
14% of decks
Baleful Strix
14% of decks · $6.67
Nighthowler
14% of decks · $0.33
Commander's Sphere
13% of decks · $0.34
Mana Drain
13% of decks · $56.89
Fierce Guardianship
13% of decks · $63.65
Thassa's Oracle
13% of decks · $22.32
Overlord of the Balemurk
13% of decks · $18.82
Sink into Stupor
12% of decks
Fell the Profane
12% of decks
Abyssal Harvester
12% of decks · $0.34
Nemesis of Reason
12% of decks · $3.12
Perpetual Timepiece
12% of decks · $0.34
Traumatize
11% of decks · $4.05
Mystic Remora
11% of decks · $15.08
Stubborn Denial
11% of decks · $4.72
Swan Song
11% of decks · $10.60
Uchbenbak, the Great Mistake
11% of decks · $0.18
Screeching Scorchbeast
11% of decks · $1.93
Brainstorm
11% of decks · $0.57
Phyrexian Arena
11% of decks · $4.26
Waterlogged Teachings
11% of decks
Dreadwing Scavenger
11% of decks · $0.20
Coiling Rebirth
11% of decks · $0.25
Doom Whisperer
11% of decks · $6.49
Propaganda
11% of decks · $2.22
Consider
11% of decks · $0.34
Cemetery Tampering
10% of decks · $0.37
Ashiok, Dream Render
10% of decks · $1.36
Visions of Beyond
10% of decks · $4.42
Afterlife from the Loam
10% of decks · $1.23
Infernal Grasp
10% of decks · $0.33
Vampiric Tutor
10% of decks · $54.45
Ruthless Technomancer
10% of decks · $2.71
Bloodchief Ascension
10% of decks · $21.38
Cabal Ritual
10% of decks
Duskmantle Guildmage
10% of decks · $0.74
Deep Analysis
10% of decks · $0.23
Altar of Dementia
10% of decks · $17.25
Palantír of Orthanc
9% of decks · $19.21
The Dawning Archaic
9% of decks · $0.91
Exhume
9% of decks · $6.93
Incarnation Technique
9% of decks · $9.43
Dauthi Voidwalker
9% of decks · $5.80
Zellix, Sanity Flayer
9% of decks · $25.51
The Soul Stone
9% of decks · $84.20
Notion Thief
8% of decks · $1.52
Otherworldly Gaze
8% of decks · $0.30
Unearth
8% of decks · $0.54
Ancient Brass Dragon
8% of decks · $39.93
Bonehoard
8% of decks · $0.87
Tainted Indulgence
8% of decks · $0.29
Damnation
8% of decks · $21.01
Out of the Tombs
8% of decks · $11.70
Mystical Tutor
8% of decks · $19.16
Mox Amber
8% of decks · $86.61
The Grim Captain's Locker
8% of decks · $0.23
Phyrexian Reclamation
8% of decks · $2.86
Circular Logic
8% of decks · $0.30
Case of the Shifting Visage
8% of decks · $0.40
Search for Azcanta
7% of decks
Zombify
7% of decks · $0.23
The Enigma Jewel
7% of decks
Memory Erosion
7% of decks · $9.42
Dance of the Dead
7% of decks
Jace, the Perfected Mind
7% of decks · $2.79
Pongify
7% of decks · $3.12
Kitsune's Technique
7% of decks · $0.63
Will of the Abzan
7% of decks · $4.47
The Eternity Elevator
7% of decks · $3.04
Mind Grind
7% of decks · $3.07
Sphinx's Tutelage
7% of decks · $2.03
Jace, Memory Adept
7% of decks · $3.82
Aetherize
7% of decks · $0.49
Force of Will
7% of decks · $59.96
Winternight Stories
7% of decks · $1.79
Drown in Dreams
7% of decks · $1.30
Agadeem's Awakening
6% of decks
Malakir Rebirth
6% of decks
Confounding Riddle
6% of decks · $0.31
Extinguisher Battleship
6% of decks · $0.84
Reality Shift
6% of decks · $0.35
Dream Harvest
6% of decks · $0.32
Codex Shredder
6% of decks · $0.35
Tasha's Hideous Laughter
6% of decks · $3.98
Charcoal Diamond
6% of decks · $0.35
Defossilize
6% of decks · $0.18
Lotus Petal
6% of decks
Liliana, Death's Majesty
6% of decks · $0.44
Didn't Say Please
6% of decks · $0.31
Sky Diamond
6% of decks · $0.25
Stillness in Motion
6% of decks · $0.25
Rapid Hybridization
6% of decks · $0.78
Demonic Counsel
6% of decks · $2.40
Demonic Consultation
6% of decks
Mask of Griselbrand
6% of decks · $0.97
Fell Gravship
5% of decks · $0.25
Archive Trap
5% of decks · $1.82
From the Catacombs
5% of decks · $0.90
Go for the Throat
5% of decks · $0.62
Entropic Battlecruiser
5% of decks · $0.39
Connive // Concoct
5% of decks
Altar of the Brood
5% of decks · $10.00
New Cards
The Master of Lake-town
12% of decks · $0.51
Dark Matter Manipulator
9% of decks · $0.73
Avacyn, Angel of Horror
7% of decks · $15.93
Theorix Charm
6% of decks · $0.24
Glamdring, Foe-hammer
5% of decks
Creatures (50)
Likeness Looter
44% of decks · $2.86
Millikin
38% of decks · $0.34
Obsessive Stitcher
35% of decks · $0.35
Deranged Assistant
33% of decks · $0.28
Laboratory Maniac
32% of decks · $2.25
Sheoldred, Whispering One
32% of decks · $20.76
Dreadhound
31% of decks · $0.28
Sepulchral Primordial
30% of decks · $0.40
Vohar, Vodalian Desecrator
28% of decks · $0.31
Fleet Swallower
28% of decks · $1.23
Shadow of Mortality
28% of decks · $0.76
Terisian Mindbreaker
27% of decks · $1.10
Starving Revenant
27% of decks · $0.32
Stitcher's Supplier
26% of decks · $0.37
Kiora, the Rising Tide
25% of decks · $0.39
Grave Researcher
25% of decks
The Mindskinner
25% of decks · $3.43
Ruin Crab
24% of decks · $1.32
Archon of Cruelty
23% of decks · $1.47
Hullbreaker Horror
22% of decks · $6.03
Phenax, God of Deception
21% of decks · $11.41
Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
21% of decks · $13.10
Gyruda, Doom of Depths
20% of decks · $0.65
Hedron Crab
19% of decks · $3.48
Nezahal, Primal Tide
19% of decks · $9.16
Massacre Wurm
19% of decks · $2.43
Valgavoth, Terror Eater
18% of decks · $18.23
Bruvac the Grandiloquent
17% of decks · $46.09
Bringer of the Last Gift
17% of decks · $0.75
Shadowgrange Archfiend
15% of decks · $6.49
Doomed Necromancer
15% of decks · $0.39
Solemn Simulacrum
14% of decks · $0.34
Rona, Herald of Invasion
14% of decks
Baleful Strix
14% of decks · $6.67
Nighthowler
14% of decks · $0.33
Thassa's Oracle
13% of decks · $22.32
Overlord of the Balemurk
13% of decks · $18.82
Abyssal Harvester
12% of decks · $0.34
Nemesis of Reason
12% of decks · $3.12
Uchbenbak, the Great Mistake
11% of decks · $0.18
Screeching Scorchbeast
11% of decks · $1.93
Dreadwing Scavenger
11% of decks · $0.20
Doom Whisperer
11% of decks · $6.49
Ruthless Technomancer
10% of decks · $2.71
Duskmantle Guildmage
10% of decks · $0.74
The Dawning Archaic
9% of decks · $0.91
Dauthi Voidwalker
9% of decks · $5.80
Zellix, Sanity Flayer
9% of decks · $25.51
Notion Thief
8% of decks · $1.52
Ancient Brass Dragon
8% of decks · $39.93
Instants (46)
Frantic Search
41% of decks · $2.13
Drown in the Loch
38% of decks · $1.64
Dark Ritual
32% of decks · $7.19
Negate
24% of decks · $0.24
An Offer You Can't Refuse
23% of decks · $3.16
Entomb
23% of decks · $18.29
Arcane Denial
22% of decks · $2.03
Dig Through Time
21% of decks · $0.30
Songs of the Damned
19% of decks · $2.91
Withering Torment
18% of decks · $1.58
Deadly Rollick
16% of decks · $28.68
Thought Scour
16% of decks · $0.61
Cyclonic Rift
15% of decks · $39.16
Fact or Fiction
15% of decks · $0.25
Overwhelming Remorse
15% of decks · $0.24
Bitter Triumph
15% of decks · $0.31
Mana Drain
13% of decks · $56.89
Fierce Guardianship
13% of decks · $63.65
Sink into Stupor
12% of decks
Fell the Profane
12% of decks
Stubborn Denial
11% of decks · $4.72
Swan Song
11% of decks · $10.60
Brainstorm
11% of decks · $0.57
Waterlogged Teachings
11% of decks
Consider
11% of decks · $0.34
Visions of Beyond
10% of decks · $4.42
Infernal Grasp
10% of decks · $0.33
Vampiric Tutor
10% of decks · $54.45
Cabal Ritual
10% of decks
Otherworldly Gaze
8% of decks · $0.30
Tainted Indulgence
8% of decks · $0.29
Mystical Tutor
8% of decks · $19.16
Circular Logic
8% of decks · $0.30
Pongify
7% of decks · $3.12
Kitsune's Technique
7% of decks · $0.63
Aetherize
7% of decks · $0.49
Force of Will
7% of decks · $59.96
Drown in Dreams
7% of decks · $1.30
Malakir Rebirth
6% of decks
Confounding Riddle
6% of decks · $0.31
Reality Shift
6% of decks · $0.35
Didn't Say Please
6% of decks · $0.31
Rapid Hybridization
6% of decks · $0.78
Demonic Consultation
6% of decks
Archive Trap
5% of decks · $1.82
Go for the Throat
5% of decks · $0.62
Sorceries (35)
Dread Return
44% of decks · $0.60
Breach the Multiverse
40% of decks · $11.31
Windfall
37% of decks · $6.02
Rise of the Dark Realms
36% of decks · $6.49
Feed the Swarm
29% of decks · $0.24
Living Death
27% of decks · $6.62
Extract from Darkness
26% of decks · $0.31
Persist
23% of decks · $0.74
Treasure Cruise
22% of decks · $0.34
Maddening Cacophony
21% of decks · $7.25
Toxic Deluge
20% of decks · $5.17
Glimpse the Unthinkable
20% of decks · $3.54
Buried Alive
19% of decks · $3.61
Cut Your Losses
18% of decks · $1.64
Demonic Tutor
16% of decks · $69.17
Fractured Sanity
15% of decks · $3.15
Traumatize
11% of decks · $4.05
Coiling Rebirth
11% of decks · $0.25
Afterlife from the Loam
10% of decks · $1.23
Deep Analysis
10% of decks · $0.23
Exhume
9% of decks · $6.93
Incarnation Technique
9% of decks · $9.43
Unearth
8% of decks · $0.54
Damnation
8% of decks · $21.01
Zombify
7% of decks · $0.23
Will of the Abzan
7% of decks · $4.47
Mind Grind
7% of decks · $3.07
Winternight Stories
7% of decks · $1.79
Agadeem's Awakening
6% of decks
Dream Harvest
6% of decks · $0.32
Tasha's Hideous Laughter
6% of decks · $3.98
Defossilize
6% of decks · $0.18
Demonic Counsel
6% of decks · $2.40
From the Catacombs
5% of decks · $0.90
Connive // Concoct
5% of decks
Utility Artifacts (22)
Matzalantli, the Great Door
43% of decks
The Everflowing Well
35% of decks
Mesmeric Orb
25% of decks · $18.03
Lightning Greaves
23% of decks · $4.00
Mindcrank
22% of decks · $13.22
The Water Crystal
20% of decks · $4.45
Swiftfoot Boots
17% of decks
Crucible of Worlds
16% of decks · $33.00
Riverchurn Monument
15% of decks · $1.53
Wayfarer's Bauble
15% of decks · $5.61
Perpetual Timepiece
12% of decks · $0.34
Altar of Dementia
10% of decks · $17.25
Palantír of Orthanc
9% of decks · $19.21
Bonehoard
8% of decks · $0.87
The Grim Captain's Locker
8% of decks · $0.23
The Enigma Jewel
7% of decks
Extinguisher Battleship
6% of decks · $0.84
Codex Shredder
6% of decks · $0.35
Mask of Griselbrand
6% of decks · $0.97
Fell Gravship
5% of decks · $0.25
Entropic Battlecruiser
5% of decks · $0.39
Altar of the Brood
5% of decks · $10.00
Mana Artifacts (14)
Sol Ring
80% of decks · $1.38
Arcane Signet
77% of decks · $0.49
Dimir Signet
54% of decks · $0.30
Talisman of Dominance
51% of decks · $0.44
Mind Stone
29% of decks
Fellwar Stone
25% of decks
Thought Vessel
19% of decks
Commander's Sphere
13% of decks · $0.34
The Soul Stone
9% of decks · $84.20
Mox Amber
8% of decks · $86.61
The Eternity Elevator
7% of decks · $3.04
Charcoal Diamond
6% of decks · $0.35
Lotus Petal
6% of decks
Sky Diamond
6% of decks · $0.25
Enchantments (22)
Animate Dead
44% of decks · $7.00
Ripples of Undeath
30% of decks · $8.82
Fraying Sanity
21% of decks · $0.86
Oversold Cemetery
17% of decks · $2.60
Necromancy
17% of decks · $19.72
Rhystic Study
16% of decks · $69.59
Virtue of Persistence
15% of decks
Court of Cunning
14% of decks · $4.14
Psychic Corrosion
14% of decks · $4.70
Mystic Remora
11% of decks · $15.08
Phyrexian Arena
11% of decks · $4.26
Propaganda
11% of decks · $2.22
Cemetery Tampering
10% of decks · $0.37
Bloodchief Ascension
10% of decks · $21.38
Out of the Tombs
8% of decks · $11.70
Phyrexian Reclamation
8% of decks · $2.86
Case of the Shifting Visage
8% of decks · $0.40
Search for Azcanta
7% of decks
Memory Erosion
7% of decks · $9.42
Dance of the Dead
7% of decks
Sphinx's Tutelage
7% of decks · $2.03
Stillness in Motion
6% of decks · $0.25
Planeswalkers (5)
Jace, Wielder of Mysteries
19% of decks · $11.04
Ashiok, Dream Render
10% of decks · $1.36
Jace, the Perfected Mind
7% of decks · $2.79
Jace, Memory Adept
7% of decks · $3.82
Liliana, Death's Majesty
6% of decks · $0.44
Utility Lands (28)
Bojuka Bog
37% of decks
Nephalia Drownyard
30% of decks
Rogue's Passage
28% of decks
Restless Reef
26% of decks
Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
24% of decks
Reliquary Tower
22% of decks
Mystic Sanctuary
20% of decks
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
18% of decks
Otawara, Soaring City
17% of decks
Cephalid Coliseum
14% of decks
Susur Secundi, Void Altar
14% of decks
Drownyard Temple
12% of decks
Jidoor, Aristocratic Capital
11% of decks
Mortuary Mire
10% of decks
Cabal Coffers
10% of decks
Dakmor Salvage
9% of decks
Geier Reach Sanitarium
9% of decks
Tomb Fortress
8% of decks
Echoing Deeps
8% of decks
Ancient Tomb
7% of decks
Lonely Sandbar
7% of decks
Witch's Cottage
7% of decks
Temple of the False God
7% of decks
Barren Moor
7% of decks
Academy Ruins
6% of decks
Tyrite Sanctum
6% of decks
Sunken Palace
6% of decks
Shizo, Death's Storehouse
6% of decks
Lands (50)
Island
96% of decks
Swamp
95% of decks
Command Tower
82% of decks
Sunken Hollow
63% of decks
Drowned Catacomb
54% of decks
Watery Grave
48% of decks
Choked Estuary
44% of decks
Tainted Isle
43% of decks
Underground River
42% of decks
Shipwreck Marsh
42% of decks
Darkwater Catacombs
38% of decks
Dimir Aqueduct
36% of decks
Morphic Pool
34% of decks
Polluted Delta
32% of decks
Undercity Sewers
32% of decks
Temple of Deceit
30% of decks
Exotic Orchard
25% of decks
Gloomlake Verge
25% of decks
Evolving Wilds
25% of decks
Clearwater Pathway
22% of decks
Fetid Pools
21% of decks
Myriad Landscape
19% of decks
Terramorphic Expanse
18% of decks
Port of Karfell
17% of decks
Sunken Ruins
16% of decks
Darkslick Shores
13% of decks
Fabled Passage
13% of decks
Underground Sea
13% of decks
Dismal Backwater
13% of decks
Sink into Stupor
12% of decks
Fell the Profane
12% of decks
Waterlogged Teachings
11% of decks
Ash Barrens
9% of decks
Bloodstained Mire
8% of decks
Misty Rainforest
8% of decks
Flooded Strand
7% of decks
River of Tears
7% of decks
Scalding Tarn
7% of decks
Boggart Trawler
7% of decks
Hidden Lair
7% of decks
Contaminated Aquifer
7% of decks
Marsh Flats
7% of decks
Prismatic Vista
6% of decks
Path of Ancestry
6% of decks
Agadeem's Awakening
6% of decks
Verdant Catacombs
6% of decks
Malakir Rebirth
6% of decks
Hydroelectric Specimen
6% of decks
Snow-Covered Island
6% of decks
Dimir Guildgate
6% of decks
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