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True Ancestry

True Ancestry

Sorcery — Lesson

uncommon

Return up to one target permanent card from your graveyard to your hand. Create a Clue token. (It's an artifact with ", Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

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Semantic Tags

Cantripmechanical

A spell that replaces itself by drawing a card as part of its resolution.

Card Drawmechanical

Puts additional cards into your hand. Includes direct draw, 'look/reveal and put into hand' effects, and conditional draw triggers.

Clue Mattersmechanical

Clue token and investigate synergies — card draw and artifact interactions.

Clue token and investigate synergies — card draw and artifact interactions.

Dredgevector

A keyword ability that lets a player return a card from their graveyard to their hand. See rule 702.52, “Dredge.”

Cares about cards in the graveyard, puts cards into the graveyard, or benefits from things dying.

Returns cards from the graveyard to your hand, the battlefield, or the top of your library.

Mana Sinkmechanical

A permanent with a repeatable activated ability that converts excess mana into value.

Creates creature tokens, Treasure tokens, Food tokens, Clue tokens, or other token types.

Tutorvector

Searches your library for a specific card. Named after Demonic Tutor. Excludes land search (that's ramp).

Format Legality

commanderlegal
oathbreakerlegal
modernlegal
pioneerlegal
standardlegal
legacylegal
vintagelegal
paupernot legal
historiclegal
explorernot legal
alchemylegal

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Printings (1)

SetRarityTCGplayerCard KingdomCardmarket
Avatar: The Last Airbender#199uncommon···

Related Rules

702.52

Dredge

702.52a

Dredge is a static ability that functions only while the card with dredge is in a player’s graveyard. “Dredge N” means “As long as you have at least N cards in your library, if you would draw a card, you may instead mill N cards and return this card from your graveyard to your hand.”

702.52b

A player with fewer cards in their library than the number required by a dredge ability can’t mill any of them this way.

Rulings

2025-10-02

Creating a Clue token this way isn't the same thing as investigating. Notably, an ability that triggers whenever you investigate won't trigger because of creating a Clue token this way.

2025-10-02

Clue tokens are artifact tokens with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card."