Altar of the Lost
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Dark AscensionDKA · #144
- Card type
- Artifact
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Indicative price
- 0.09 € · ★ 0.21 € · 0.06 $ · ★ 0.41 $
- Mana value
- 3
- Colour
- Colourless
Card text
This artifact enters tapped. : Add two mana in any combination of colors. Spend this mana only to cast spells with flashback from a graveyard.
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PennyLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
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Printing information
- Illustrator
- Daarken
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2012-02-03
Rulings
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.
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.