Path of Ancestry Price
50 printings · 39 sets · first printed 2017
Path of Ancestry has been printed 50 times across 39 sets, first in 2017 and most recently in 2026. Right now the cheapest printing is Starter Commander Decks #312 at $0.17, while the most expensive is Secret Lair Drop #914 at $28.69 — about 169× more. The median across 47 priced printings is $0.30. Reprint risk: HIGH RISK — Reprinted 50x, including dedicated reprint sets like Mystery Booster Commander Edition, Reality Fracture Commander.
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Every Path of Ancestry Printing, Compared
Cheapest first · unpriced last| Printing | Year | Price | Dealer Buys |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starter Commander Decks #312 (C) Cheapest | 2022 | $0.17 | $0.15 |
| Reality Fracture Commander #77 (C) | 2026 | $0.21 | $0.03 |
| The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander #346 (C) | 2023 | $0.23 | — |
| Fallout #279 (C) | 2024 | $0.23 | — |
| Aetherdrift Commander #166 (C) | 2025 | $0.24 | — |
| Kaldheim Commander #117 (C) | 2021 | $0.25 | $0.03 |
| Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander #382 (C) | 2025 | $0.25 | $0.06 |
| Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander #310 (C) | 2024 | $0.26 | — |
| Lorwyn Eclipsed Commander #158 (C) | 2026 | $0.26 | — |
| Commander Masters #423 (C) | 2023 | $0.26 | $0.16 foil |
| Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Eternal #70 (C) | 2026 | $0.26 | — |
| Wilds of Eldraine Commander #165 (C) | 2023 | $0.26 | $0.03 |
| Aetherdrift Commander #61 (C) | 2025 | $0.27 | $0.02 |
| Commander Legends #353 (C) | 2020 | $0.27 | $0.16 foil |
| Midnight Hunt Commander #178 (C) | 2021 | $0.27 | — |
| Crimson Vow Commander #177 (C) | 2021 | $0.28 | — |
| Phyrexia: All Will Be One Commander #161 (C) | 2023 | $0.28 | — |
| New Capenna Commander #419 (C) | 2022 | $0.28 | — |
| Murders at Karlov Manor Commander #279 (C) | 2024 | $0.29 | $0.08 |
| Doctor Who #293 (C) | 2023 | $0.29 | — |
| Forgotten Realms Commander #254 (C) | 2021 | $0.29 | $0.09 |
| Final Fantasy Commander #411 (C) | 2025 | $0.30 | $0.04 |
| Secrets of Strixhaven Commander #393 (C) | 2026 | $0.30 | $0.04 |
| The List #C17-56 (C) | 2023 | $0.30 | $0.04 |
| Commander 2017 #56 (C) | 2017 | $0.32 | $0.05 |
| Marvel Super Heroes Commander #254 (C) | 2026 | $0.32 | — |
| March of the Machine Commander #418 (C) | 2023 | $0.32 | — |
| Bloomburrow Commander #322 (C) | 2024 | $0.33 | — |
| Tales of Middle-earth Commander #322 (C) | 2023 | $0.33 | — |
| The List #M3C-363 (C) | 2025 | $0.34 | $0.02 |
| Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate #907 (C) | 2022 | $0.34 | $0.02 |
| Warhammer 40,000 Commander #287 (C) | 2022 | $0.34 | — |
| The List #NCC-419 (C) | 2024 | $0.34 | — |
| Commander 2020 #298 (C) | 2020 | $0.34 | $0.03 |
| Modern Horizons 3 Commander #363 (C) | 2024 | $0.37 | $0.16 foil |
| The List #CMR-353 (C) Foil | 2021 | $0.37 | $0.30 foil |
| The Brothers' War Commander #192 (C) | 2022 | $0.42 | $0.06 |
| 30th Anniversary Play Promos #25 (R) Foil | 2022 | $0.75 | $0.26 foil |
| Commander Masters #661 (C) | 2023 | $0.85 | $0.38 |
| Warhammer 40,000 Commander #287★ (C) Foil | 2022 | $0.98 | — |
| Secret Lair Drop #2684 (R) | 2026 | $1.56 | $0.36 |
| Commander Legends #708 (C) | 2020 | $1.86 | $0.40 |
| Doctor Who #884 (C) Foil | 2023 | $3.67 | $0.60 foil |
| Secret Lair Drop #250 (R) | 2021 | $3.74 | — |
| Love Your LGS 2021 #C3 (R) | 2021 | $4.56 | $0.95 |
| Fallout #807 (C) Foil | 2024 | $5.42 | $3.50 foil |
| Secret Lair Drop #914 (R) Foil | 2025 | $28.69 | $17.50 foil |
| Mystery Booster Commander Edition #80 (C) | 2026 | — | — |
| Magic Online Promos #86112 (C) | 2020 | — | — |
| Treasure Chest #65679 (C) | 2017 | — | — |
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: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)Legality is a property of the card, not the printing, so it is identical for all 50 versions.
Official Judge Precedents
7 PrecedentsIf you don't have a commander, Path of Ancestry's ability produces no mana.
If you cast your commander with mana from Path of Ancestry, and your commander hasn't somehow lost all of its creature types while on the stack, you'll scry 1.
If Path of Ancestry's last ability produces two mana (most likely due to Mana Reflection), spending those two mana to cast creature spells that share a creature type with your commander will cause two abilities to trigger. Each of those abilities will cause you to scry 1. You won't scry 2. This is true whether you spend the mana on one creature spell or two.
If your commander has no creature types, it can't share a creature type with any spell that you cast.
If your commander is a card that has no colors in its color identity, Path of Ancestry's ability produces no mana. It doesn't produce 
.
If you have two commanders, the last ability adds one mana of any color in their combined color identities. When you spend that mana on a creature spell that shares a creature type with either of your commanders, you'll scry 1.
Your commander's creature types are checked immediately after you cast a creature spell spending mana from Path of Ancestry's last ability. They aren't set before the game begins, and they may not be the same types your commander had when you activated that ability.