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Ashnod's Altar
Price$8.04 – $43.45
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Ashnod's Altar

{3}

Artifact

Legal Salt 1.12RampRank #131

Sacrifice a creature: Add {C}{C}.

Why is this card good?

Ashnod's Altar is a colorless powerhouse and a staple sacrifice outlet that doubles as a mana engine. The key is that it's free to activate and produces two mana per creature, which untaps combo and value engines across the format. Where it shines: - Aristocrats: a free sac outlet that pings death triggers (Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat) while generating mana. It's a build-around enabler. - Tokens: convert hordes of bodies into a flood of colorless mana — great with Pitiless Plunderer, or to refuel after a board wipe. - Combo: a critical piece in loops like Karmic Guide/Reveillark, or with persist/undying creatures for infinite mana and triggers. The mana isn't lost value — you sacrifice creatures you'd lose anyway, and the colorless output fuels artifacts, X-spells, or activated abilities. When to skip it: decks without meaningful creature throughput, voltron, or builds that don't care about sacrifice synergies. It's near-useless if you have no bodies to feed it and nothing to do with two colorless.

Related cards

Phyrexian AltarC

Sac creature for any color mana, similar engine piece.

Pitiless PlundererB

Generates treasures when creatures die, pairs with sac outlets.

Altar of DementiaC

Free sac outlet that mills, alternative for combos.

Goblin BombardmentR

Free sac outlet dealing damage instead of mana.

Carrion FeederB

Free creature sac outlet for combo loops.

Viscera SeerB

Free sac outlet with scry, cheap combo enabler.

Spawning PitC

Repeatable sac outlet making tokens.

Blasting StationC

Sac outlet pinging on each sacrifice for combo kills.

Printings (14)

sldSecret Lair Drop · #1679R$43.45Buy
cmmCommander Masters · #368U$16.54Buy
brrThe Brothers' War Retro Artifacts · #67zR—Buy
brrThe Brothers' War Retro Artifacts · #67R$19.14Buy
brrThe Brothers' War Retro Artifacts · #4R$15.73Buy
plstThe List · #EMA-218U$15.71Buy
emaEternal Masters · #218U$15.87Buy
wc00World Championship Decks 2000 · #nl274U$8.04Buy
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6edClassic Sixth Edition · #274U$14.97Buy
5edFifth Edition · #349U$14.35Buy
rinRinascimento · #101U$27.88Buy
bchrChronicles Foreign Black Border · #92C—Buy
chrChronicles · #92C$13.03Buy
atqAntiquities · #38U$32.16Buy

Played by these commanders

Krenko, Mob Boss100% of 1

Combos (8)

  • Pitiless Plunderer + Ashnod's Altar + Reassembling Skeleton

    → Infinite colorless mana, Infinite death triggers, Infinite ETB

  • Gravecrawler + Pitiless Plunderer + Ashnod's Altar

    → Infinite colorless mana, Infinite death triggers, Infinite ETB

  • Luminous Broodmoth + Ashnod's Altar

    → Infinite LTB, Infinite ETB, Infinite sacrifice triggers

  • Nim Deathmantle + Ashnod's Altar

    → Infinite LTB, Infinite ETB, Infinite sacrifice triggers

  • Ashnod's Altar + Cathars' Crusade

    → Infinite +1/+1 counters on most creatures you control, Infinite ETB, Infinite LTB

  • Ashnod's Altar + Rhythm of the Wild

    → Infinite ETB, Infinite LTB, Infinite colorless mana

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