Altar of Dementia
Modern Horizons (MH1) #218 · Rare · Artifact
Mana cost: {2}
Sacrifice a creature: Target player mills cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power.
"It is not that you will go mad. It is that you will beg for madness."
—Volrath
Illustrated by Brom · Released June 14, 2019
Prices
- Nonfoil: $16.47 USD · €12.60 EUR
- Foil: $20.67 USD · €18.67 EUR
Nonfoil price since August 29, 2026: down $1.30 USD (7.3%) to $16.47 USD; low $16.29 USD, high $19.45 USD.
Printings
- The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts #3 (BRR) · Mythic · 2022 · $18.13 USD
- The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts #66 (BRR) · Mythic · 2022 · $24.37 USD
- The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts #66z (BRR) · Mythic · 2022 · $687.50 USD foil
- Modern Horizons #218 (this printing) · Rare · 2019 · $16.47 USD
- Conspiracy #196 (CNS) · Rare · 2014 · $19.06 USD
- Tempest #276 (TMP) · Rare · 1997 · $26.71 USD
Legality
- Standard: Not legal
- Alchemy: Not legal
- Pioneer: Not 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
- 2019-06-14 · wotc — The number of cards the target player puts into their graveyard is equal to the power of the sacrificed creature as it last existed on the battlefield.
- 2019-06-14 · wotc — If the target player's library contains fewer cards than the sacrificed creature's power, all of those cards are put into that player's graveyard. That player won't lose the game until they try to draw from the empty library.
Played in these commander decks
- Syr Konrad, the Grim · in 30% of 40 decks
- The Mycotyrant · in 29% of 49 decks
- Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver · in 27% of 45 decks
- The Master, Transcendent · in 24% of 46 decks
- Imotekh the Stormlord · in 20% of 44 decks
- Teval, the Balanced Scale · in 20% of 49 decks
- Meren of Clan Nel Toth · in 17% of 48 decks
- Disa the Restless · in 14% of 49 decks