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◇ Catalog #196

Altar of Dementia

cns·#196·rare·foil

Illus. Brom

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in vault

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for trade

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wishlisted

Jun '14

12 yr ago

Value

$17.71+$1 (+4.2%)

30 days high $17 · low $16

NM$16.7

LP—

MP—

HP—

DMG—

$15–$18modeled

30 days ago
today

90-dayhigh $31low $11range 182.2%n 816

Where to buy / sell

TCGplayer eBay sold Cardmarket EU Star City

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Played in EDH

EDHrec rank #613 · Common include

Variants

Foil$17

Nonfoil$20

Gameplay

Artifact

Sacrifice a creature: Target player mills cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power.

"It is not that you will go mad. It is that you will beg for madness." —Volrath

Legalities

tlrlegal

duellegal

brawllegal

pennylegal

PreDH

Rulings · 2

2019-06-14wotc

The number of cards the target player puts into their graveyard is equal to the power of the sacrificed creature as it last existed on the battlefield.

2019-06-14wotc

If the target player's library contains fewer cards than the sacrificed creature's power, all of those cards are put into that player's graveyard. That player won't lose the game until they try to draw from the empty library.

Context

Last observed on Scryfall 2 months ago at $16.71. Over the trailing 90 days the price moved between $11.00 and $31.04 across 816 observations. Cross-checked across TCGplayer, eBay sold, Cardmarket EU, and Star City.

This printing is one of 3 catalogued treatments from CNS — the lineup includes Foil and Nonfoil alongside the standard finish. Across our catalog the Rarix library tracks every variant in the same family so collectors can compare price, scarcity and demand inside a single lineage.

Card #196 of *Conspiracy*, the set that shipped alongside the June 2014 Conspiracy release.

Card type: Artifact, printed at rare. Rares occupy the bottom-of-pack rare slot in standard boosters. Mana cost: {2} (2 converted). Keyword abilities: Mill.

Legal across the major constructed formats — Modern, Legacy, Vintage, and Commander — plus Standard rotation play.

EDHrec ranks this card #613 in Commander, putting it in the common-include tier of the format's playable pool.

Illustrated by Brom. Rarix catalogs 187 other cards credited to this artist.