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Altar of the Wretched // Wretched Bonemass

Artifact // Creature — Skeleton Horror

Craft usually asks you to trade a card's front face for a bigger, weirder back face and to pay for the swap in mana plus material. Here the material is creatures, and the back face inherits them wholesale. Wretched Bonemass has no fixed body: its power and toughness are the summed power of everything exiled to craft it, and it absorbs every relevant keyword those creatures carried. Feed it something with flying, deathtouch, and trample and the Skeleton Horror walks away with all three. That is the design hook. The front side is a sacrifice-for-cards altar, and the crafted back side is a keyword scavenger that reassembles the parts you fed it into a single evasive threat whose size scales with what you gave up.

The front half is unabashed card advantage: sacrifice a nontoken creature with power X and you draw X while milling X, netting the full X cards in hand with your graveyard padded as a side effect. That mill is fuel, not a cost, and it points squarely at the craft cost, which exiles creatures from the graveyard to assemble the back face. The altar dumps bodies into the yard; the craft ability spends them to build the Bonemass. The recursion clause is a separate insurance policy, buying the artifact back to hand for 2 generic manaBlack mana if it dies before you commit. All three modes point the same way: they reward a board full of expendable creatures, and they reward you for having scattered the right keywords across it. This is a two-stage engine dressed as one card, built for tables that treat creatures as parts rather than presence.

Altar of the Wretched // Wretched Bonemass (lcc)
LCC · #22rare
Pricing
Normal: $1.21
Foil: $2.91
Oracle Text

Rules text

When this artifact enters, you may sacrifice a nontoken creature. If you do, draw X cards, then mill X cards, where X is that creature's power. Craft with one or more creatures 2 generic manaBlack manaBlack mana 2 generic manaBlack mana: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand. // Wretched Bonemass's power and toughness are each equal to the total power of the exiled cards used to craft it. This creature has flying as long as an exiled card used to craft it has flying. The same is true for first strike, double strike, deathtouch, haste, hexproof, indestructible, lifelink, menace, protection, reach, trample, and vigilance.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
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Commander
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Pauper
N/A
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
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Old School
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Premodern
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PreDH
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Pauper Commander
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Oathbreaker
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Gladiator
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Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
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