Netherborn Altar
- Mana cost
- {1}{B}
- Type
- Artifact
- Set
- Commander 2020 #45 (rare)
- Price
- $0.43 USD
{T}, Put a soul counter on this artifact: Put your commander into your hand from the command zone. Then you lose 3 life for each soul counter on this artifact.
Netherborn Altar has 2 printings, first in Commander 2020 (2020). EDHREC ranks it #9,843 among Commander cards. It appears most in Phage the Untouchable decks (3,046 on EDHREC). 1 public deck on TCG runs it. It has 5 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: not legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Public decks that run Netherborn Altar
- Symbiotic Swarm - Commander 2020, led by Kathril, Aspect Warper
Commanders that run Netherborn Altar most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Phage the Untouchable: 3,046 decks
- Kathril, Aspect Warper: 571 decks
- Haakon, Stromgald Scourge: 354 decks
- Iname as One: 319 decks
- Horobi, Death's Wail: 270 decks
- Piru, the Volatile: 248 decks
- Valgavoth, Terror Eater: 234 decks
- Mortarion, Daemon Primarch: 197 decks
Often played with Netherborn Altar
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : If your commander isn’t in the command zone (or if you’re not playing the Commander variant), Netherborn Altar only makes you lose life.
- : Putting a soul counter onto Netherborn Altar is part of the cost to activate its ability, and counting the number of soul counters is done as the ability resolves. Players may take actions between those times to change the number of soul counters, perhaps by removing them all so that you lose no life.
- : If you have two commanders in the command zone, Netherborn Altar’s ability puts one of your choice into your hand, not both.
- : The “commander tax” increases based on how many times a commander was cast from the command zone. Casting a commander from your hand doesn’t require that additional cost, and it doesn’t increase what the cost will be the next time you cast that commander from the command zone.
- : If Netherborn Altar leaves the battlefield while its ability is on the stack, the amount of life you lose is determined by the number of soul counters it had on it immediately before it left the battlefield.