Quick Blessing from the Caverns
Ancestors' Aid puts a low cost combat trick into your back pocket that also leaves you with treasure to spend later. Cast Ancestors' Aid on a pivotal attacker or blocker to grant +2/+0 and first strike until end of turn while creating a Treasure token you can convert into mana. It is the sort of small tempo play that wins skirmishes and fuels follow up plays on the same turn.
In gameplay terms Ancestors' Aid fits into aggressive red decks and midrange shells that value incremental resource gain. Use it to turn trades in your favor, push unexpected damage through, or ramp into a second spell with the Treasure it makes. The art and flavor lean into the set lore by tying a quick ancestral blessing to practical battlefield gain for one mana and a red mana.
Card Details:
- Mana Cost – {1}{R}
- Card Type – Instant
- Subtypes –
- Card Text / Rules Text (Printed) – Target creature gets +2/+0 and gains first strike until end of turn. Create a Treasure token. (It is an artifact with "T, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")
- Power / Toughness – N A