Altar of Dementia
- Mana cost
- {2}
- Type
- Artifact
- Set
- The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts #66z (mythic)
Sacrifice a creature: Target player mills cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power.
Altar of Dementia has 6 printings, first in Tempest (1997). EDHREC ranks it #646 among Commander cards. It appears most in Teval, the Balanced Scale decks (9,557 on EDHREC). It has 2 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Altar of Dementia most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Teval, the Balanced Scale: 9,557 decks
- Muldrotha, the Gravetide: 9,080 decks
- Meren of Clan Nel Toth: 6,505 decks
- Celes, Rune Knight: 4,892 decks
- Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver: 3,753 decks
- The Mycotyrant: 3,670 decks
- Slimefoot and Squee: 3,204 decks
- Atla Palani, Nest Tender: 3,083 decks
Often played with Altar of Dementia
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : The number of cards the target player puts into their graveyard is equal to the power of the sacrificed creature as it last existed on the battlefield.
- : If the target player's library contains fewer cards than the sacrificed creature's power, all of those cards are put into that player's graveyard. That player won't lose the game until they try to draw from the empty library.