Where Ancients Tread
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
Whenever a creature you control with power 5 or greater enters, you may have this enchantment deal 5 damage to any target.
Combos with Where Ancients Tread
The lines this card is part of, what it needs alongside it, and what the cards do together. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.
- Polyraptor Infinite
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Vrondiss, Rage of Ancients Infinite
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature tokens
Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.
Rulings
One official ruling, as Wizards published it.
- 2008-10-01
The ability checks that creature's power only once: when that creature enters. The trigger checks a creature's initial power upon being put on the battlefield, so it will take into account counters that it enters with and static abilities that may give it a continuous power boost once it's on the battlefield (such as the one on Glorious Anthem). After the creature is already on the battlefield, boosting its power with a spell (such as Giant Growth), activated ability, or triggered ability won't allow this ability to trigger; it's too late by then. Once the ability triggers, it will resolve no matter what the creature's power may become while the ability is on the stack.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Where Ancients Tread, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Omnath, Locus of Rage | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Gruul 1 deck
Where Ancients Tread price history
The Commander 2013 #130 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly. Click any version below to chart its price.
Every recorded price change
| Date | Non-foil |
|---|---|
| Oct 27, 2026 | $0.73 |
| Oct 10, 2026 | $0.73 |
| Oct 9, 2026 | $0.74 |
| Sep 28, 2026 | $0.76 |
A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.
Every version of Where Ancients Tread
2 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly. A printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall publishes none for some of them. Click a card's art to chart that version's price above.
- Normal
- $0.73
- Normal
- $0.88
- Foil
- $6.98
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Where Ancients Tread. It runs a name search across every version, which covers the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.
Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only. No individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.
