Printings
Bontu's Monument
Card Information
Type: Legendary Artifact
Mana Cost: 3
CMC: 3
Part of the Reserved List: No
Set: Amonkhet (AKH)
Rarity: Uncommon
Collector Number: 225
Oracle Text
Black creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Whenever you cast a creature spell, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Format Legalities
Card Rulings
- April 18, 2017
Each Monument has one ability that reduces the cost of creature spells of a certain color, and a triggered ability that triggers whenever you cast any creature spell—not just a creature spell of that color.
Source: wotc - April 18, 2017
In a Two-Headed Giant game, the triggered ability of Bontu's Monument causes the opposing team to lose 2 life and you gain 1 life.
Source: wotc - April 18, 2017
To determine the total cost of a creature spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost you're paying, add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. The mana value of the creature remains unchanged, no matter what the total cost to cast it was.
Source: wotc - April 18, 2017
Each Monument's triggered ability triggers as the creature spell is cast and resolves before that creature spell resolves. The ability will resolve even if that creature spell is countered.
Source: wotc - April 18, 2017
A creature spell that's multiple colors is each of those colors. For example, Ahn-Crop Champion is a white creature and a green creature, so it can benefit from either Oketra's Monument or Rhonas's Monument—or both at once.
Source: wotc
Price History
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