Altar of the Brood
Khans of Tarkir (KTK) #216 · Rare · Artifact
Mana cost: {1}
Whenever another permanent you control enters, each opponent mills a card.
Supplicants offer flesh and silver, flowers and blood. The altar takes what it will, eyes gleaming with unspoken promises.
Illustrated by Erica Yang · Released September 26, 2014
Prices
- Nonfoil: $9.85 USD · €5.46 EUR
- Foil: $16.39 USD · €9.57 EUR
Nonfoil price since August 29, 2026: up $0.03 USD (0.3%) to $9.85 USD; low $9.71 USD, high $11.75 USD.
Printings
- Secret Lair Countdown #1 (SLC) · Rare · 2025 · $10.60 USD
- Secret Lair Countdown #28 (SLC) · Rare · 2025 · $61.19 USD foil
- Magic Online Promos #55787 (PRM) · Rare · 2015
- Ugin's Fate #216 (UGIN) · Rare · 2015 · $27.89 USD
- Khans of Tarkir #216 (this printing) · Rare · 2014 · $9.85 USD
Legality
- Standard: Not legal
- Alchemy: Not legal
- Pioneer: Legal
- Historic: Legal
- Modern: Legal
- Brawl: Legal
- Legacy: Legal
- Timeless: Legal
- Vintage: Legal
- Pauper: Not legal
- Commander: Legal
- Penny: Legal
- Oathbreaker: Legal
- Duel: Legal
Rulings
- 2014-09-20 · wotc — If Altar of the Brood enters the battlefield under your control at the same time as other permanents, its ability will trigger for each of those permanents.
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- Ashnod, Flesh Mechanist · in 6% of 49 decks