Ashnod's Altar
Ashnod's Altar: Artifact, Commander Masters. Sacrifice a creature: Add Colorless Colorless. Printings, prices, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {3}
- Mana value
- 3
- Type
- Artifact
- Colour identity
- Colourless
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Set
- Commander Masters (CMM)
- Released
- 2023-08-04
- Collector number
- 368
- Artist
- Greg Staples
- Commander rank
- 133 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
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About Ashnod's Altar
Ashnod's Altar is a Magic: The Gathering card, an uncommon colourless artifact from Commander Masters (CMM), a Masters set released in August 2023. It is collector number 368 in that set, with art by Greg Staples. It costs {3} (three generic mana) to cast, for a mana value of 3. It has no colour identity. It is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, Premodern, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Pauper Commander, PreDH, Brawl, Historic, Timeless and Gladiator. It has been printed in 14 sets, from Antiquities (1994) to Commander Masters (2023). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $16.75 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-02).
Card text
Sacrifice a creature: Add {C}{C}.
"If you work at sawing up carcasses, you notice how the joints fit, how the nerves are arrayed, and how the skin peels back." -Ashnod, to Tawnos
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $16.75 (as of 2026-11-02).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Ashnod's Altar by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Legacy | Legal |
|---|---|
| Vintage | Legal |
| Pauper | Legal |
| Premodern | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Pauper Commander | Legal |
| PreDH | Legal |
| Brawl | Legal |
| Historic | Legal |
| Timeless | Legal |
| Gladiator | Legal |
Other printings of Ashnod's Altar
Ashnod's Altar has been printed in 14 sets. The 12 most recent other printings are listed here, newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Secret Lair Drop (SLD) #1442 | Rare | 2026 |
| The Zeta Set (SLZ) #216 | Rare | 2026 |
| The Zeta Set (SLZ) #337 | Rare | 2026 |
| The Zeta Set (SLZ) #95 | Rare | 2026 |
| Secret Lair Drop (SLD) #1679 | Rare | 2024 |
| The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts (BRR) #4 | Rare | 2022 |
| The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts (BRR) #67 | Rare | 2022 |
| The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts (BRR) #67z | Rare | 2022 |
| The List (PLST) #EMA-218 | Uncommon | 2019 |
| Eternal Masters (EMA) #218 | Uncommon | 2016 |
| Masters Edition IV (ME4) #181 | Rare | 2011 |
| World Championship Decks 2000 (WC00) #nl274 | Uncommon | 2000 |
Similar cards
Other artifact cards with no colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.