Altar of Bone
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Ice AgeICE · #281
- Card type
- Sorcery
- Rarity
- Rare
- Indicative price
- 5.07 € · 11.87 $
- Mana value
- 2
- Colour
- White Green
Card text
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.
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PredhLegal
- PremodernLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
Indicative Scryfall prices, updated daily. ★: foil; ★ E: etched foil. EUR and USD represent different markets.
Printing information
- Illustrator
- Melissa A. Benson
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 1995-06-03
Rulings
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.
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.
You must sacrifice exactly one creature to cast this spell; you cannot cast it without sacrificing a creature, and you cannot sacrifice additional creatures.