Altar of the Lost
- Mana cost
- {3}
- Type
- Artifact
- Set
- Dark Ascension #144 (uncommon)
- Price
- $0.06 USD
This artifact enters tapped.
{T}: Add two mana in any combination of colors. Spend this mana only to cast spells with flashback from a graveyard.
Altar of the Lost has 1 printing, first in Dark Ascension (2012). EDHREC ranks it #23,653 among Commander cards. It appears most in Doc Aurlock, Grizzled Genius decks (100 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: not legal
Commanders that run Altar of the Lost most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Doc Aurlock, Grizzled Genius: 100 decks
- Sevinne, the Chronoclasm: 71 decks
- The Balrog, Flame of Udûn: 2 decks
- Winter Soldier, Bucky Barnes: 1 decks
- Graham O'Brien: 1 decks
- The Fugitive Doctor
Often played with Altar of the Lost
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : You can spend mana produced by Altar of the Lost to cast any spell with flashback that you cast from a graveyard. You don’t have to be using flashback to cast that spell, however, as long as something else is allowing you to cast that spell.
- : Altar of the Lost doesn’t allow you to cast spells from any other player’s graveyard, although you can spend the mana it produces on such spells if something else allows you to.