Altar of the Goyf
Altar of the Goyf: Kindred Artifact - Lhurgoyf, Modern Horizons 2. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {5}
- Mana value
- 5
- Type
- Kindred Artifact - Lhurgoyf
- Colour identity
- Colourless
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Set
- Modern Horizons 2 (MH2)
- Released
- 2021-06-18
- Collector number
- 220
- Artist
- Yeong-Hao Han
- Commander rank
- 9,745 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
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About Altar of the Goyf
Altar of the Goyf is a Magic: The Gathering card, an uncommon colourless kindred artifact from Modern Horizons 2 (MH2), a draft-focused set released in June 2021. It is collector number 220 in that set, with art by Yeong-Hao Han. It costs {5} (five generic mana) to cast, for a mana value of 5. It has no colour identity. It is legal in Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Historic, Timeless and Gladiator. It has been printed in 3 sets, from Modern Horizons 2 (2021) to Modern Horizons 3 Commander (2024). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.21 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-03).
Card text
Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, it gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of card types among cards in all graveyards.
Lhurgoyf creatures you control have trample.
"What dies grows the [illegible]" -Clawed-out statue inscription
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.21 (as of 2026-11-03).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Altar of the Goyf by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Modern | Legal |
|---|---|
| Legacy | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Brawl | Legal |
| Historic | Legal |
| Timeless | Legal |
| Gladiator | Legal |
Other printings of Altar of the Goyf
Altar of the Goyf has been printed in 3 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Modern Horizons 3 Commander (M3C) #282 | Uncommon | 2024 |
| Jumpstart: Historic Horizons (J21) #733 | Uncommon | 2021 |
Official rulings
Six official rulings apply to Altar of the Goyf, newest first.
- Kindred is a card type that allows noncreature cards to have creature types. For example, Echoes of Eternity is an Eldrazi (although not a creature) while on the battlefield and an Eldrazi card (although not a creature card) in zones other than the battlefield.
- While it appears only on cards that already have other card types, kindred is a card type and will be counted by effects that refer to the number of card types among cards in a zone.
- This cards was originally printed with the "tribal" card type. That card type has been replaced with "kindred". This change does not affect the gameplay function of this card.
- If Altar of the Goyf somehow becomes a creature and the effect allows to keep its other types, it will give itself trample.
- A creature attacks alone if it's the only creature declared as an attacker during the declare attackers step (including creatures controlled by your teammates, if applicable). For example, Altar of the Goyf's first ability won't trigger if you attack with multiple creatures and all but one of them are removed from combat.
- The card types that can appear in a graveyard are artifact, battle, creature, enchantment, instant, kindred, land, planeswalker, and sorcery. Legendary, basic, and snow are supertypes, not card types; Aura and Lhurgoyf are subtypes, not card types.
In these precons
Altar of the Goyf is in the decklist of these preconstructed Commander decks.