Altar of the Wretched // Wretched Bonemass

Altar of the Wretched // Wretched Bonemass

Artifact // Creature — Skeleton Horror

Mana cost: {2}{B}

How we read this card

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.

triggered —

triggered — draws you X cards

triggered — mills a card

Craft with one or more creatures {2}{B}{B}
Return this card from your graveyard to your hand.

activated {2}{B} — brings a card back

Wretched Bonemass's power and toughness are each equal to the total power of the exiled cards used to craft it.

static — makes your creatures bigger

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.

static — grants haste

Causes: sacrifice a nontoken creature, a nontoken creature dies, draw a card, mill a card, anything leaves a graveyard.

Cares about: a creature to sacrifice.

Works well with

anything leaves the battlefield — 1 card in the game can cause this (Altar of the Wretched is one).

  1. Toothy, Imaginary Friend — When Toothy, Imaginary Friend leaves the battlefield thanks to Altar of the Wretched // Wretched Bonemass, it draws you cards
  2. Chainer, Dementia Master — When Chainer, Dementia Master leaves the battlefield thanks to Altar of the Wretched // Wretched Bonemass, it exiles a Nightmare

an artifact leaves a graveyard — 233 cards in the game can cause this (Altar of the Wretched is one).

When Altar of the Wretched // Wretched Bonemass leaves a graveyard:

  1. Imotekh the Stormlord — makes 2 tokens
  2. Dredger's Insight — gains you 1 life

a creature leaves a graveyard — 1,302 cards in the game can cause this (Altar of the Wretched is one).

When Altar of the Wretched // Wretched Bonemass leaves a graveyard:

  1. Grim Reaper's Scythe — makes a token
  2. Syr Konrad, the Grim — deals 1 damage
  3. Cyan, Vengeful Samurai — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  4. Along the Crooked Way — puts a counter on a Goblin or Army
  5. Skeleton Crew — makes a token
  6. Desecrated Tomb — makes a token
  7. Chalk Outline — makes a token
  8. Insidious Roots — makes a token
  9. Undead Hand Ninja — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  10. Erebos's Titan — triggers

3 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a nontoken creature is sacrificed — 1,714 cards in the game can cause this (Altar of the Wretched is one).

When a creature is sacrificed thanks to Altar of the Wretched // Wretched Bonemass:

  1. Fumulus, the Infestation — makes a token
  2. Bag of Devouring — exiles it

a creature is sacrificed — 1,741 cards in the game can cause this (Altar of the Wretched is one).

When a creature is sacrificed thanks to Altar of the Wretched // Wretched Bonemass:

  1. Ziatora, the Incinerator — deals that creature's power damage
  2. Dina, Essence Brewer — draws you 1 card
  3. Fleshtaker — gains you 1 life
  4. Body Dropper — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  5. Smothering Abomination — draws you 1 card
  6. Kels, Fight Fixer — draws you 1 card
  7. Caesar, Legion's Emperor — triggers
  8. Grist, the Hunger Tide — kills a creature or planeswalker an opponent controls
  9. Cabal Therapist — triggers
  10. Rakdos, the Muscle — exiles a card from an opponent's library

19 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

anything leaves a graveyard — 2,503 cards in the game can cause this (Altar of the Wretched is one).

When Altar of the Wretched // Wretched Bonemass leaves a graveyard:

  1. Blastoneuron — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  2. Defiled Crypt // Cadaver Lab — makes a token
  3. Teval, the Balanced Scale — makes a token
  4. Hologram Stalker — makes a token
  5. Tormod, the Desecrator — makes a token
  6. Quintorius, Field Historian — makes a token
  7. Garrison Excavator — makes a token
  8. Amzu, Swarm's Hunger — makes a token
  9. Kirol, History Buff // Pack a Punch — becomes prepared
  10. Teval's Judgment — triggers

13 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a creature in a graveyard — 2,769 cards in the game can cause this (Altar of the Wretched is one).

Altar of the Wretched // Wretched Bonemass puts cards into the graveyard that:

  1. Havengul Lich — can bring back
  2. Liliana the Repentant — can bring back
  3. Paleoloth — can bring back
  4. Chainer, Nightmare Adept — can bring back
  5. Banon, the Returners' Leader — can bring back
  6. Surgical Suite // Hospital Room — can bring back
  7. Sword of Light and Shadow — can bring back
  8. Necromantic Thirst — can bring back
  9. Krile Baldesion — can bring back
  10. Extus, Oriq Overlord // Awaken the Blood Avatar — can bring back

799 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a nontoken creature dies — 2,769 cards in the game can cause this (Altar of the Wretched is one).

When Altar of the Wretched // Wretched Bonemass dies:

  1. Zahur, Glory's Past — makes a token
  2. Liesa, Forgotten Archangel — brings a card back
  3. Avacyn, Angel of Horror — brings a card back
  4. Yedora, Grave Gardener — brings a card back
  5. Nim Deathmantle — brings a card back
  6. Valkyrie's Call — brings a card back
  7. Decaying Soil — brings a card back
  8. High-Society Hunter — draws you 1 card
  9. Liliana, Heretical Healer // Liliana, Defiant Necromancer — flickers itself
  10. Body Launderer — draws and discards

60 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a creature dies — 2,830 cards in the game can cause this (Altar of the Wretched is one).

When Altar of the Wretched // Wretched Bonemass dies:

  1. Pious Evangel // Wayward Disciple — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  2. Daxos, Blessed by the Sun — gains you 1 life
  3. Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim — makes each opponent lose 1 life

459 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a permanent is put into a graveyard from the battlefield — 5,057 cards in the game can cause this (Altar of the Wretched is one).

  1. Gerrard, Weatherlight Hero — When Gerrard, Weatherlight Hero dies thanks to Altar of the Wretched // Wretched Bonemass, it exiles itself

16 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.