Altar of the Brood

Artifact

Whenever another permanent enters the battlefield under your control, each opponent puts the top card of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

Combos

• Altar of the Brood + Shielded by Faith + Siona, Captain of the Pyleas
• Altar of the Brood + Oona, Queen of the Fae + Sage's Row Denizen

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Freeform	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (46)

Rhadamanthus on Altar of the brood landfall

3 months ago

Altar of the Brood, Traveling Chocobo

Yes, that works. The Chocobo's effect cares about whether a land or bird entering caused an ability to trigger. It doesn't require the ability to be specifically written to trigger from lands. With the Chocobo on the battlefield, the Altar will an extra trigger from each land that enters, an extra trigger from each bird that enters, and no extra triggers from any non-land, non-bird (if the permanent is somehow both a bird and a land, there will just be one extra trigger).

MLS91 on Deforestation Techniques

3 months ago

DreadKhan

Phenomenal insight into Altar of the Brood totally overlooked that! As soon as I can stop by my LGS to pick up the copy I literally just traded in for credit, it will find its way back into the deck like it originally was.

As for Omen of Fire, I’m playing this deck in the cEDH community. The more I look at this card the more I do still want to play it but as we both I’m sure agree it is in fact very meta, but the only real thing holding me truly back at this point is that I’m running Dryad of the Ilysian Grove. Although it’s only a single copy I can’t risk bouncing my own lands. Looking back at Tectonic Break now and maybe even potentially Epicenter

DreadKhan on Deforestation Techniques

3 months ago

Just getting back to you about Omen of Fire, I've tried to slip it into a few decks, and the biggest complaint I had was that the decks I wanted to use it in were low enough in power level that people would sometimes balk if they were hit too hard by the land hate aspect. I think if you're allowed to use Game Changers (Bracket 3) you shouldn't get too much negative attention for Omen (expect some though). It's also a meta call, if nobody uses White or Islands then the card can do absolutely nothing. The Instant speed nature of it can matter in some lists, if you play it on a Blue player's end step then they can't replay any of the Islands that turn (and might have to discard a bunch), whereas a White player might have to choose between losing their blockers for the turn or sacrificing their aggro creatures, especially if they don't have a lot of Plains. FWIW a LOT of 'go wide' type token decks use White tokens, this will wipe out those tokens.

Omen plays well with cards that help your interaction get through, like Vexing Shusher for example, because you might find that the decks you most want to hit with it are best suited to just counter the spell.

Omen gets a lot worse if you're playing against people who use untyped duals, but I will note that more and more people like using things like the Surveil lands and Triomes, meaning even if people aren't on OG Dual Lands they can still have access to plenty of playable typed duals, and FWIW Omen is MUCH better vs ETB tapped Islands. If you find people react to you running Omen by running more of these untyped duals you can start using Primal Order that punish people for using non-Basics (I feel like you could probably get away with running a lot of Basic lands in a Gruul list, ymmv), so people are hurt either way.

Hopefully that can help give you insight into running Omen in a deck of your own!

I'm not sure if it's really an issue in your metas, but I found that when I built infinite combos it was often a big asset if I had some different types of payoff; this could help me get around protection effects in some cases. Anyways, Altar of the Brood allows infinite creature ETBs to mill out each opponent, all without targeting, and they die when they draw their next card. If nobody ever has Protection or some from of damage immunity then this isn't relevant and sorry for wasting your time!

I have a fancy Inkmoth Nexus that does essentially nothing ATM, but your idea of using it with Kessig Wolf Run seems reasonable, I think I might add it to my own Gruul list, it even wants some Colourless lands. Thanks!

plakjekaas on Question about Dualcaster Mage + …

5 months ago

Holy necrothread batman!

Dualcaster Mage goes infinite with Twinflame already, resulting in as many 2/2s with haste as you can think of. Altar of the Brood will just make it so that you don't even need to attack. Season of Growth will make you draw a card from the original Twinflame and scry through your entire deck as every Dualcaster Mage token being created is a creature entering the battlefield. I'm not sure what Pelt Collector is going to do, if it's a 1/1 it becomes a 2/2. None of these things actually go infinite with anything, but most can be a payoff for making infinite-adjacent creature tokens, with the original combo. Which already wins with combat damage in most cases.

FormOverFunction on The Big Black Succ

6 months ago

I don’t think this deck needs my help at all, but I wanted to mention Altar of the Brood as a potentially fun card. Again: I’m unconvinced it’s needed, or would even be an upgrade to replace anything, but maybe worth mentioning.

Flarhoon13 on Aminatou's Adventures in babysitting the Gatewatch

10 months ago

Having completed my quest to play all 52 of my decks, I decided to try getting a win with all of my deck

Sep 23

Aminatou's Adventures in babysitting the Gatewatch won a long long game. Lucky to pull out a win with many combo pieces out: The Chain Veil, Felidar Guardian, Blinky the Eldrazi (Eldrazi Displacer, which blanked two pieces of removal on my final turn). Got infinite Jace, Architect of Thought activations into Wishclaw Talisman for Altar of the Brood. Darryl's colourless Assassins creed deck kept replaying Smoke Bomb, delaying me for several turns even as I tutored thrice with The Cruelty of Gix Saga, finally went infinite when he let the fuckin Smoke Bomb die. My losers' record goes up to 6-12

xraider on Norin Naughty Nonsense

11 months ago

I have a few fun cards that have great synergy with Norin. Maybe interesting to check out? Altar of the Brood, Gimli of the Glittering Caves, Molten Gatekeeper, Vigilante Justice, Witty Roastmaster, Outpost Siege, Pandemonium

FormOverFunction on Help with Sedris EDH

11 months ago

Would you want to have a Altar of the Brood to mill yourself additional targets..?