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"Find me cards equivalent to: For the Ancestors"

Equivalent green instant cards to For the Ancestors that care about creature types and digging through your library include:
1. Lead the Stampede

  • Sorcery, but similar effect: look at top five cards, put creature cards into hand (not instant, lacks creature type choice, no flashback).
    2. Descendants' Path
  • Enchantment, but allows casting creature cards of the chosen type from library. Not an instant, but cares about creature type.
    3. Collected Company
  • Instant, look at top six, puts two creatures with CMC 3 or less onto the battlefield (doesn’t focus on type, no flashback).

No other green instant exactly matches “For the Ancestors” in both card type and tribal synergy with flashback, but For the Ancestors is closest in effect to Lead the Stampede and Collected Company for green dig effects.

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Collected Company

Descendants' Path

For the Ancestors

Lead the Stampede

Collected Company #166 aka. CoCo Instant

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Rarity: Rare
Converted Cost: 4
Power/Toughness: /
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  • Instant
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    Normal
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    Rules

  • Each of the creature cards can have mana value 3 or less. It's not the total mana value of the two cards.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Cardmarket 6.83 EUR / 3.78 EUR
    Manapool 2.88 USD
    Tcgplayer 3.45 USD

    Legalities

    Alchemy Brawl Commander Duel Future Gladiator Historic Legacy Modern Oathbreaker Oldschool Pauper Paupercommander Penny Pioneer Predh Premodern Standard Standardbrawl Timeless Vintage

    Text

    Look at the top six cards of your library. Put up to two creature cards with mana value 3 or less from among them onto the battlefield. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

    Descendants' Path #167 Enchantment

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 3
    Power/Toughness: /
    Types:
  • Enchantment
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    Normal
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    Rules

  • If the card has {X} in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as its value.
  • If the revealed card is a creature card that shares a creature type with a creature you control, but you choose not to cast it, it's put on the bottom of your library. (This is a recent change.)
  • If you cast a card "without paying its mana cost," you can't pay any alternative costs. You can pay additional costs, such as kicker costs. If the card has mandatory additional costs, you must pay those.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Cardmarket 1.99 EUR / 2.04 EUR
    Cardkingdom / 1.99 USD 1.99 USD
    Manapool / 1.04 USD 0.59 USD
    Tcgplayer / 2.65 USD 0.93 USD

    Legalities

    Alchemy Brawl Commander Duel Future Gladiator Historic Legacy Modern Oathbreaker Oldschool Pauper Paupercommander Penny Pioneer Predh Premodern Standard Standardbrawl Timeless Vintage

    Text

    At the beginning of your upkeep, reveal the top card of your library. If it's a creature card that shares a creature type with a creature you control, you may cast it without paying its mana cost. If you don't cast it, put it on the bottom of your library.

    For the Ancestors #740 Instant

    Variations: v1 v2
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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 3
    Power/Toughness: /
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  • Instant
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    Normal
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Flashback

    Rules

  • "Flashback [cost]" means "You may cast this card from your graveyard by paying [cost] rather than paying its mana cost" and "If the flashback cost was paid, exile this card instead of putting it anywhere else any time it would leave the stack."
  • A spell cast using flashback will always be exiled afterward, whether it resolves, is countered, or leaves the stack in some other way.
  • If a card with flashback is put into your graveyard during your turn, you can cast it if it's legal to do so before any other player can take any actions.
  • To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost (such as a flashback cost) you're paying, add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. The mana value of the spell is determined only by its mana cost, no matter what the total cost to cast the spell was.
  • You can cast a spell using flashback even if it was somehow put into your graveyard without having been cast.
  • You must still follow any timing restrictions and permissions, including those based on the card's type. For instance, you can cast a sorcery using flashback only when you could normally cast a sorcery.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Cardmarket / 4.39 EUR 2.61 EUR
    Cardkingdom 4.99 USD
    Tcgplayer 5.37 USD
    Manapool 3.48 USD

    Legalities

    Alchemy Brawl Commander Duel Future Gladiator Historic Legacy Modern Oathbreaker Oldschool Pauper Paupercommander Penny Pioneer Predh Premodern Standard Standardbrawl Timeless Vintage

    Text

    Choose a creature type. Look at the top six cards of your library. You may reveal any number of cards of the chosen type from among them and put the revealed cards into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. Flashback (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

    Lead the Stampede #170 Sorcery

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    Cost:
    Rarity: Uncommon
    Converted Cost: 3
    Power/Toughness: /
    Types:
  • Sorcery
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    Layout:
    Normal
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    Rules

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    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Cardkingdom / 3.49 USD 0.79 USD
    Manapool 0.29 USD / 2.57 USD
    Tcgplayer / 2.07 USD 0.3 USD
    Cardmarket / 1.5 EUR 0.35 EUR

    Legalities

    Alchemy Brawl Commander Duel Future Gladiator Historic Legacy Modern Oathbreaker Oldschool Pauper Paupercommander Penny Pioneer Predh Premodern Standard Standardbrawl Timeless Vintage

    Text

    Look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal any number of creature cards from among them and put the revealed cards into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.