Altar of the Lost
Card Information
Type: Artifact
Mana Cost: 3
CMC: 3
Part of the Reserved List: No
Set: Dark Ascension (DKA)
Rarity: Uncommon
Collector Number: 144
Oracle Text
This artifact enters tapped. {T}: Add two mana in any combination of colors. Spend this mana only to cast spells with flashback from a graveyard.
Format Legalities
Card Rulings
- January 22, 2011
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.
Source: wotc - January 22, 2011
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.
Source: wotc
Price History
To study a single card is to glimpse the heart of a spell - a frozen moment of ambition, artistry, and arcane intent. Within each glyph lies a spark: a story untold, a duel turned, a destiny altered. Treat it not as mere parchment, dear seeker, but as a shard of the Multiverse itself.