Altar of Bone

set	min	mtgo
-	A$ 9.25	0.0 tix

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Name	Altar of Bone
Type	Sorcery
Description	As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Search your library for a creature card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Artist	Melissa A. Benson
Set	Ice Age #281
Wallpaper	download
Image	download

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About Altar of Bone

Altar of Bone, Sorcery, designed by Melissa A. Benson first released in Jun, 1995 in the set Ice Age. It's currently being selled by the minimum price of A$ 9.25.

Altar of Bone is particularly beneficial in a deck that focuses on creature sacrifice and recursion, such as a Selesnya (G/W) strategy that utilizes tokens or creatures with beneficial death triggers. It can help you find key creatures to maintain pressure or set up combos, making it a solid choice in those builds. However, there are arguably better options like Fauna Shaman, which allows for more flexibility in creature selection without the sacrifice requirement, or Chord of Calling, which can search for creatures directly onto the battlefield. While Altar of Bone can see play in niche decks, it may not be the most efficient choice compared to these alternatives.

Rules

04/15/13

Players can only respond once this spell has been cast and all its costs have been paid. No one can try to destroy the creature you sacrificed to prevent you from casting this spell.

10/04/04

Because the “search” requires you to find a card with certain characteristics, you don’t have to find the card if you don’t want to.