Ashnod's Altar

Artifact

Sacrifice a creature: Add to your mana pool.

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Fresh303 on Feed the Rich

6 days ago

Substitutions:

Ophiomancer -> Farhaven Elf

Dictate of Erebos -> Zulaport Cutthroat

Nesting Dragon -> Poison-Tip Archer

Attrition -> Beast Within

Ashnod's Altar -> Ogre Battledriver

Heroic Intervention -> Liliana's Standard Bearer

Eldrazi Monument -> Putrefy

Pawn of Ulamog -> Nature's Claim

Firecat Blitz -> Krosan Grip

Armillary Sphere -> Shamanic Revelation

Vile Requiem -> Dread Return

multimedia on Hercules23

1 week ago

Hey, I tried to post a comment at MoxField, but it didn't work because I think the comment was too long. I kind of have a problem with long comments :)

Instead I'll post the comment about your Scarab deck here.

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Nice updated version of Scarab. To answer your question because you have Phyrexian you could cut Ashnods. Although, I don't think I would since Ashnods is better than a few cards here because it's a combo piece and the ramp can help to pay for Scarab's embalm. Dementia being a win condition for opponent mill or repeatable opponent mill throughout the game is nice, but it's dangerous as self-mill enabler because you risk milling nonZombie combo pieces which you currently can't reanimate or recur. Honestly, I would play all three of the combo artifact sac outlets because of so much self-mill you don't have control of.

Because of self-mill Academy Ruins would be worth including to recur Phyrexian or save Phyrexian when in graveyard from being exiled. Since it's a land it doesn't take a valuable deck spot for this effect. One of the main reasons to play Phyrexian Reclamation is it can save creatures especially Gravecrawler and Wonder at instant speed from being exiled by graveyard hate which can be a big problem. Mystic Sanctuary is helpful since it's an Island for Wonder and as a bonus it can potentially recur an instant or sorcery which is good with self-mill.

• Ashnod's Altar --> Necromantic Selection
• Academy Ruins --> Temple of the False God
• Phyrexian Reclamation --> Training Grounds
• Mystic Sanctuary --> 1x Island

Temple of the False God is not a good land here because without Urborg it's unable to tap for mana until your turn five or six and that's if you make all your land drops. Necromantic Selection is a high CMC card that you don't really need because you have Kindred Dominance which is the same mana cost, but more powerful board wipe effect especially with Zombie tokens.

Training Grounds can be a powerful card for combos, but it's not doing that here therefore it doesn't do enough only affecting three creatures: Scarab, Cryptbreaker, Accursed. I don't think it's worth taking a deck spot for Grounds just to reduce the cost of Scarab or be able to reduced cost of activated abilities of opponent's creature you may embalm. Ashnods mimics what Grounds does by sacing a creature you make two colorless which can be used to help to pay, better yet to cast or activate anything else.

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By increasing your budget then you could add other black tutors and more tutors are very helpful when you want an artifact to combo. Diabolic Intent and/or Profane Tutor are two more two drop tutors to consider adding. Consider more tutors that can get Wonder or Gravecrawler such as Entomb or Unmarked Grave ?

• Diabolic Intent or Profane Tutor --> Fact or Fiction
• Entomb or Unmarked Grave --> Go for the Throat

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Shambling Ghast is a new one drop Zombie for combo with Rooftop + Havengul because when it dies it creates a treasure. With any sac outlet such as more convenient Carrion Feeder Ghast mimics Phyrexian Altar . With Rooftop, Feeder + Ghast can replace Phyrexian and being able to remove one nonZombie combo piece from the combo with Havengul is a huge upgrade. Ghast + Phyrexian combos with Havengul without needing Rooftop for infinite casts/dies/leave graveyard of Ghast which can make Havengul combo faster not needing six drop Rooftop.

• Shambling Ghast --> Solemn Simulacrum

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Acererak the Archlich is another new Zombie for combo with Rooftop since you don't have to enter Tomb of Annihilation dungeon instead you can enter one of the other two dungeons which results in bouncing Acererak back to your hand to cast again for free and repeat. Instead of venturing into Annihilation you can enter one of the other two dungeons and go to their rooms for value as many times equal to cards you have in your library. Lost Mine of Phandelver has Dark Pool room which as long as you have more cards in your library than each opponent has life can be a true win condition.

The way the Dungeons work is once you have completed one you can then right away venture back into that same dungeon again which lets you repeatedly enter Phandelver and it's rooms. In this combo with Phandelver each card in your library equals in order: 1 scry, 1 treasure, gain 1 life and each opponent loses 1 life, draw a card, that's powerful. Storeroom room instead of Dark Pool room can make Scarab huge for a big Commander damage attack.

Acererak the Archlich --> Loyal Subordinate

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Pair Gravecrawler with a sac outlet such as Feeder and it's ability to leave your graveyard with Tormod, the Desecrator for another repeatable Zombie token source to create a 2/2 Zombie for one black mana as many times as black mana you have to really fuel Scarab's upkeep trigger. This combo makes infinite tapped 2/2 Zombies with Phyrexian + Gravecrawler that forces an opponent to wrath the board or you win at your next upkeep. Tormod also triggers when you embalm your own creatures with Scarab.

• Tormod, the Desecrator --> Overseer of the Damned

Zombie Master is a Zombie evasion source, pair it with Urborg. Wonder will be a target for graveyard hate when it's in your graveyard therefore having other evasion sources especially from a Zombie is helpful.

• Zombie Master --> Liliana's Mastery

Pikobyte on Atla Palani, Keeper of the Big Nasties

1 week ago

Maybe spice it up then. Here are some of my combo lines:

• Thornbite Staff + Ashnod's Altar lets you produce infinite eggs and put all your creatures on the table. Cycling an eldrazi titan over and over kills with purphoros triggers.

• Runed Stalactite + Ashnod's Altar lets you cycle through your deck until you find the desired creature or killed everyone with purphoros triggers.

• Runed Stalactite + Mirror Entity also kills the table with purphoros triggers when you activate entity for 0 just often enough by holding priority.

• Mirror Entity + Ashnod's Altar lets you cycle again through your deck similar to stalactite and altar combo while also producing infinite colorless mana that can be used to make all your creatures huge with entity. Also infinite Purphoros triggers.

• Maskwood Nexus + any free sac outlet like Ashnod's Altar , Goblin Bombardment or Blasting Station : infinite damage with Purphoros triggers again. Also additional infinite damage on creatures with station and bombardment and infinite colorless mana with altar.

Terror of the peaks works instead of purphoros too

Coward_Token on Adventures in the Forgotten Realms …

2 weeks ago

Pretty obvious but you're free to put out lands with the death triggers too. Another Ashnod's Altar combo to add to the pile.

LuPe2593 on Balthor, the OG

2 weeks ago

Ashnod's Altar , Bottomless Vault , Ebon Stronghold , Everglades , Field of Ruin , Terminal Moraine , Head Games , Diabolic Tutor , Demonic Tutor , Harvester of Souls , Read the Bones , Cover of Darkness , Boneknitter , Erratic Portal

itachi5464 on Chatter chatter?

2 weeks ago

Some Suggestions: Blood Artist Doubling Season Avenger of Zendikar Beastmaster Ascension Bastion of Remembrance Ashnod's Altar

GrimlockVIII on Infinite Golem Potential (EDH)

3 weeks ago

Yo, so I figured out this neat combo between Feldon of the Third Path , Tuktuk the Explorer , some sacc outlet, and some untap outlet.

You basically use Feldon to copy Tuktuk in your graveyard, then you sacc the copy to create a 5/5 Goblin Golem, then you untap and repeat the process to create infinite golems.

Obvious outlets would be Ashnod's Altar and Phyrexian Altar since they provide more mana to abuse Feldon's effect.

Problem is, I don't know where to go from here lol. There's so many types of decks and color combos that can def take advantage of this and I don't know what to choose.

Just wanna know tho, is the combo worth anything or am I just talking out my own ass?

Soulus101 on King Korvold the Krool

3 weeks ago

Ashnod's Altar turns Pitiless Plunderer and Reassembling Skeleton into an infinite mana engine, or infinite sac/recursion for value.