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Abuelo, Ancestral Echo
Card Information
Type: Legendary Creature — Spirit
Mana Cost: 1
CMC: 3
Part of the Reserved List: No
Color Identity:
Set: The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI)
Rarity: Rare
Collector Number: 219
Oracle Text
Flying, ward {2} {1}{W}{U}: 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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Format Legalities
Card Rulings
- November 10, 2023
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.
Source: wotc - November 10, 2023
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.
Source: wotc - November 10, 2023
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.
Source: wotc - November 10, 2023
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.
Source: wotc - November 10, 2023
If a token is exiled this way, it ceases to exist and won't return to the battlefield.
Source: wotc - November 10, 2023
An artifact creature card or enchantment creature card returned this way will have base power and toughness 1/1.
Source: wotc
Price History
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